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Ship It

Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:15 PM by jledgard
Scoble is right . All the research, value proposition positioning, and market playbooks can't save you from looking like a copycat. Waiting that extra year or even months to perfect something for the web certainly doesn't win you any customer mindshare. Read More...
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Communities Test Team Hiring

Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 9:20 AM by jledgard
Microsoft people forward me lots of Job descriptions. Some of them are more interesting than others. I'm sure there are still a few people reading my blog interested in software testing. If I was looking for an SDET job the following description is from Read More...
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Hire People that are Good for your Customer Community

Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:32 PM by jledgard
We're trying to change the culture here. Its no secret. We want people who work on Developer Tools to have regular interactions with our customers. Part of a culture change involves a shift in the people. I guess this is sort of my plea to Microsoft employees Read More...
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My Thoughts on the MSDN Feedback Center

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:10 PM by jledgard
Overall I know it’s a great thing and there are some issues that need to be improved over time for it to be truly successful. I may be a little close to the project since my co-workers are responsible for the Feedback Center , but I think I’m Read More...
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New MS Testing Tool for Verifying Accessibility Now Available

Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:15 PM by jledgard
Sara publicly released MSAAVerify today. She has been working on it part time for two years and I know is excited to have “shipped“ it. This tool has recently been picked up by several teams at Microsoft for verifying the accessibility of Read More...
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Mandatory Reading for People Reporting Bugs (Even in Newsgroups!)

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 9:52 AM by jledgard
Having spent the last two years in my previous role of Test Lead in a LOT of triage meetings I found this post to be both hilarious and educational for people opening bugs. If everyone would do the opposite of the recommendations listed there when opening Read More...
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Exciting Times

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:15 PM by jledgard
The KDE Quality Team was covered on Slashdot today. Maybe working in a test org makes me biased, but this is a great concept for the open source world, and one of the missing links for OSS IMO. Some of the tasks, like writing documentation, may fall out Read More...
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What should Josh write about?

Posted Monday, February 09, 2004 10:46 AM by jledgard
Now that I’ve proven there are at least 5 non Microsoft people reading this blog I’d like to do a service to those 5 people. What would you like to me write about next? I have no shortage of potential topics. I could talk more about software Read More...
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