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Test Stubs as a Strategic Choice A test stub is a simulator for an external system that you are not in charge of. It still happens in 2025 that systems are designed with a too big dependency on externally controlled systems. Building stubs enables a better strategic choice for the system owner.
22.06.2025 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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127 Requirements are Never Equal The feeling when (TFW) you are handed 127 requirements and need to establish a way to implement and verify them.
18.06.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CSSLP - A Secure Development Practitioner Gaining a ISC2 CSSLP certificate in Secure Development and what to do about it. The art is in understanding the frameworks so much to be able to tailor them to the culture and risk appetite for the company at hand.
27.05.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Testing Coorporate CIS18 Security Let's help make the implementations more resilient and functional. As always.
23.04.2025 14:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Big Hallucination Would I be more effective with an LLM? Probably not, no. Maybe I just haven't seen The Emperor's New Clothes. I have seen the Stochastic parrot - that don't impress me much... Sigh.
03.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s Time for Business Continuity and Exit Plans How hard is it for you to pull the plug for your IT services and move elsewhere? It's not a matter of when you need this - but how prepared you want to be.
19.02.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IT Security and Compliance are People Problems Days Since it was a PEOPLE PROBLEM: 0. Not DNS. Not solvable by technology. But about biases, behaviour and all the other things that make us human.
07.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Compliance Coaching for the Delivery Teams I can understand why delivery teams would seem overwhelmed by the volume and think that it's a hindrance in delivering software solutions in a modern way. One way to enable the delivery teams with security and compliance know-how is to have them supported by a Compliance Coach.
14.01.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Problem-solving from the stakeholders' point of view. Understanding the landscape is critical whether you're facing any new situation. One technique that I consistently use is Wardley Mapping. Let me share with you a concrete example to visualize the landscape.
08.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Have Smarter Compliance Interactions What matters is everything around the output - not the procedure/guidance/assessment itself. The way you wire your interactions with others is key to your team's success.
03.01.2025 10:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We all work with Risks, Questions and Requirements Risks, Questions and Requirements are surely part of the tester's hierarchy of needs. As I am exploring new fields, I am seeing how these needs are also a key part of other competence areas' daily needs.
30.12.2024 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Key learnings from 2024 Key learnings from directing the testing stage on test leadership and resilience testing in 2024.
20.12.2024 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who Have You Lifted Up Today? Contrary to what you might think, hoarding power and being involved in everything is not a powerful move. The real influence is in making room for others and lifting others up. Prepare the new generation in your field and enable them to grow. Cast the stage light on others.
16.12.2024 07:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Test the Emergency Procedures Having company procedures for everything is nice. As a testing professional, you have unique skills to bring to the table in trying and testing the procedures - what's the worst that could happen?
13.11.2024 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sprouting Testing in New Fields What is blocking us is the perception that our testing skills cannot be applied outside (software) testing. Of course, they can, and often they are exactly what is required for other parts of the organization to grow.
05.11.2024 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Throw a Disaster Party For the next sprint have a disaster recovery test. Of course, you have a plan for that! Having a plan for a disaster is nice but remember the old saying that backups are irrelevant if you can’t restore. So do test your recovery plans as well.
03.09.2024 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leadership as an Individual Contributor Individual contributors can convey leadership both in roles and activities without being in the formal organizational management hierarchy. The practical organization for this can take many forms.
20.08.2024 12:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0