We talk more about Lencioni's working genius model, and attempt to attach it to a mailbag question about how projects get done in a modern testing world.

We discuss one of the age-old questions of software testing. How does a "manaual tester" 'get into' automation. 

We dive into our history of personality type tests. Starting with the classic MBTI, we move to Insights, Strengths Finders, and then Working Genius (we also briefly mention our Harry Potter houses).

This time we talk a bit about learning (including an upcoming webinar from alan - https://www.meetup.com/Pacific-NW-Software-Quality-Conference-PNSQC/events/276239634, and talk about quality vs. testing - which is just another framing of principle 5 of the modern testing principles. 

We talk a bit about personality types (more on this in 136), touch on some thoughts on record & playback automation, and a few other tangential topics.

Books mentioned on this podcast include:

One more for the bookshelf that we didn't call out is Principles of Product Development Flow (Reinertsen)

It's a bit of a meandering discussion this time, but we dance around the role of teams that support other teams success.

Here's the blog post link Brent refers to in the podcast - Test Doesn't Understand the Customer

We reflect a bit on Alan's recent article (inspired by episode 132), and then talk quite a bit about the correlation of test automation ownership and quality. We hope you enjoy the show.

It's our first episode of 2021 - where we talk (a little) about the US political situation, then discuss mindsets and skillsets - and then wrap things up with a discussion on estimation metrics.