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"https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/having-a-process-doesnt-mean-you-get-good-results/", "published_at": "2025-01-23T07:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de44-80ac-7145-a09e-a2c1b6d5d3c1", "title": "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/one-day-i-will-find-the-right-words-and-they-will-be-simple/", "published_at": "2025-01-22T07:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de44-80ac-7145-a09e-a2c1b7a52880", "title": "Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 5: Attending (more) Closely", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/systems-seeing-adventure-day-5-attending-more-closely/", "published_at": "2025-01-21T08:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c4513843d909", "title": "Enjoy the process", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/enjoy-the-process/", "published_at": "2025-01-20T08:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c45138620724", "title": "Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 4: Ackoff on Systems", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/systems-seeing-adventure-day-4-ackoff-on-systems/", "published_at": "2025-01-17T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c451390a985c", "title": "System Seeing Adventure – Day 3: Explore System Concepts", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/system-seeing-adventure-day-3-explore-system-concepts/", "published_at": "2025-01-16T08:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c451397035dd", "title": "The concept of “enough”", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/the-concept-of-enough/", "published_at": "2025-01-15T07:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c45139b1db69", "title": "System Seeing Adventure – Day 2: Draw your Org (incl. my take on orgs)", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/system-seeing-adventure-day-2-draw-your-org/", "published_at": "2025-01-14T08:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c4513a516b16", "title": "Enjoying complexity", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/enjoying-complexity/", "published_at": "2025-01-13T07:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c4513b1b1c44", "title": "Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 1: Draw a Bike", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/systems-seeing-adventure-day-1-draw-a-bike/", "published_at": "2025-01-10T08:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c4513c1086c1", "title": "Making connections – the rain drop model", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/making-connections-the-rain-drop-model/", "published_at": "2025-01-09T07:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c4513c630ca3", "title": "Time – the forgotten dimension", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/time-the-forgotten-dimension/", "published_at": "2025-01-08T08:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de55-36f8-73ce-8329-c4513c82fcd0", "title": "Cycle models are just hiding many small parallel and cascading waterfalls", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/every-cycle-model-is-just-hiding-many-small-parallel-and-cascading-waterfalls/", "published_at": "2025-01-07T08:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dc909554c", "title": "The urge for simplicity", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/the-urge-for-simplicity/", "published_at": "2025-01-06T08:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dc9970102", "title": "Simplicity means shifting complexity", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/simplicity-means-shifting-complexity/", "published_at": "2025-01-03T07:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dc9cb3eaf", "title": "Let’s get better one day at a time", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/lets-get-better-one-day-at-a-time/", "published_at": "2025-01-02T07:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dca37fdf2", "title": "Nobody likes the foundation", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/nobody-likes-the-foundation/", "published_at": "2024-12-20T08:33:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dcafed603", "title": "Context, assumptions and why communication sucks", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/context-assumptions-and-why-communication-sucks/", "published_at": "2024-12-19T07:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dcbb98e46", "title": "Complex systems are bound to fail", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/complex-systems-are-bound-to-fail/", "published_at": "2024-12-18T07:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dcc38fdc4", "title": "Differentiae – where is the difference", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/differentiae-where-is-the-difference/", "published_at": "2024-12-17T07:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dccc4a3eb", "title": "The relation is its own thing", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/the-relation-is-its-own-thing/", "published_at": "2024-12-16T07:13:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dcd74b7e1", "title": "Why am I writing so much about Systems Thinking?", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/why-am-i-writing-so-much-about-systems-thinking/", "published_at": "2024-12-13T08:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de5e-e20e-716d-9177-605dce05f948", "title": "Web of Causation and why I don’t like 5 Whys", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/web-of-causation-and-why-i-dont-like-5-whys/", "published_at": "2024-12-12T08:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931b7bf493e", "title": "Perspectives in systems thinking, again – part 2", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/perspectives-in-systems-thinking-again-part-2/", "published_at": "2024-12-11T08:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931b83b33d1", "title": "Perspectives in Testing", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/perspectives-in-testing/", "published_at": "2024-12-10T07:50:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931b83ca1f9", "title": "Perspectives in systems thinking – part 1", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/perspectives-in-systems-thinking-part-1/", "published_at": "2024-12-09T09:10:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931b910343a", "title": "Simplifying the view doesn’t make the system less complex", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/simplifying-the-view-doesnt-make-the-system-less-complex/", "published_at": "2024-12-06T08:59:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931b98ccf7e", "title": "Simple is not the opposite of complex", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/simple-is-not-the-opposite-of-complex/", "published_at": "2024-12-05T10:03:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931ba018810", "title": "When a tester gets the zoomies", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/when-a-tester-gets-the-zoomies/", "published_at": "2024-12-04T09:00:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931babc9d6d", "title": "Software Testing for 20 years", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/software-testing-for-20-years/", "published_at": "2023-07-01T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931bae22ced", "title": "API Testing: Using the Fluent Interface Pattern for JSON Assertions", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/api-testing-using-the-fluent-interface-pattern-for-json-assertions/", "published_at": "2022-08-31T18:52:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931bb3ef531", "title": "Quality is a complex system", "url": "https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2022/01/26/quality-is-a-complex-system/", "published_at": "2022-01-26T21:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0de69-b406-70bb-937c-b931bbcd9f7c", "title": "The “But” Heuristic", "url": 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2026

Flooding the Zone, or Why Cheap Output Isn’t Freeoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
What Am I Actually Writing About? A Reflection After 42 Daysoriginal ↗
1 May 2026
Glue or Process Band-Aid?original ↗
26 Apr 2026
Finding Your Way or Why My Dad Can’t Use Windowsoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2026
Looking Into the Crystal Balloriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
Hey Siri, is AI Fatigue a Thing?original ↗
23 Apr 2026
AI Doesn’t Understand the World (yet)original ↗
22 Apr 2026
Talk to the Machine, or Why We Chat with AI But Not Each Otheroriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
The Tech Radar is Blinking Redoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2026
The Convenient Scapegoat?original ↗
19 Apr 2026
Are We Building the Right Thing, or How GenAI Made Us Forget to Askoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2026
The Amplifier, or How AI Reveals What Was Already Brokenoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
The Waterfall Strikes Backoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2026
Assisted Migration, or Why Forcing AI Into Your Ecosystem Is a Terrible Ideaoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
The AI Gold Rush, or It’s Time to Make Moneyoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
Frameworks and Systems Thinking. How the S-to-P Jig Works.original ↗
13 Apr 2026
Why I Rant Without Providing Solutionsoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
Are AI Coding Agents the New Heroes, and Why That’s Not a Complimentoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
Biases are Systems, or Why Knowing About Them Doesn’t Make Them Go Awayoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2026
The Asymmetry of Explanation, or Why the Simple Lies Winoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
The Blind Confidence of AI-Generated Testsoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2026
Did Test Automation Engineers Just Get Pluto-ed?original ↗
7 Apr 2026
The Most Average Codebase You’ve Ever Seenoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
Testing Is Systems Thinkingoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2026
Systems Thinking and Test Casesoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2026
The Purpose of a System Is What It Does, or Why German Gas Prices Peak at Noonoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
AI Cannot Replace Glue Workoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
Don’t Label While You Model – The Six Moves – Part 7original ↗
2 Apr 2026
Looking From All Sides – P-Circle – The Six Moves – Part 6original ↗
1 Apr 2026
Crack Open the Arrow – RDS Barbell – The Six Moves – Part 5original ↗
31 Mar 2026
Responsible Use of AI to Gain Personal Efficiencyoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Is AI the New Drug, or How We Are Building Dependencies We Can’t Escapeoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
More Is Not Better, or How AI Kills the Art of Leaving Things Outoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026
I Don’t Trust This Output Farther Than I Can Throw a Washing Machineoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
When the Parts Start Talking to Each Other – Part Party – The Six Moves – Part 4original ↗
27 Mar 2026
The Wolves in Your Company, or Why Replacing People with AI Breaks Things You Can’t Seeoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Is Plumber Availability a New Signal for AI?original ↗
26 Mar 2026
Systems Don’t Exist in a Vacuum – Zooming Out – The Six Moves – Part 3original ↗
25 Mar 2026
Becoming AI Shepherds, and Who Will Grow the Next Generation of Testers?original ↗
24 Mar 2026
We Are Going In – Hold My Beer! Zooming In – The Six Moves – Part 2original ↗
23 Mar 2026
Are We Celebrating the Wrong Thing?original ↗
22 Mar 2026
The Death of the Vision, or How We Trade Purpose for Marginsoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
RAMmageddon – Will Scarcity Bring Back the Lost Art of Efficient Programming?original ↗
21 Mar 2026
The Domino Effect Nobody Sees Coming, or How AI Layoffs Will Ripple Through Everythingoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
The AI Efficiency Traporiginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
What the Archaeologist Didn’t Find, or Systems Thinking and the Art of Seeing What’s Missingoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
Distinction – What Is? And Also, What Is It Not? The Six Moves – Part 1original ↗
18 Mar 2026
A Practical Lesson in Systems Thinking – The Six Moves – Part 0original ↗
17 Mar 2026
The Leverage Effect, or Why AI Is Eating Everythingoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
The Hybrid Shop, or Knowing When to Use Power Toolsoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
System Seeing Adventure – The AI Lock-In Catastropheoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
More Output Is Not More Value, or Why AI Might Break Your Systemoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026
You Ship It, You Own It.original ↗
10 Mar 2026
AI Increases Output by 10x. Especially Stress.original ↗
9 Mar 2026
Friction-Maxxing, or The Case for Elbow Greaseoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
Vibe Coding is Like Groundhog Dayoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2026
Vibe Coding and the Return of Throwing Stuff over the Fenceoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2026
Context is the System – What AI Prompting and Systems Thinking Have in Commonoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
Welcome to Mount Stupid or The Illusion of Expertiseoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
You are Part of the Systemoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
When you outsource testing to the AI, you lose the ability to understand your systemoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026

2025

Systems Thinking seems to be important, but how does it work?original ↗
12 Mar 2025
The System of a Buttonoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2025
Empathy – Understanding Motivation in Systemsoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2025
Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 10 and 11 – Telling it backwardsoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
Putting Lipstick on the Pig: The Downside of Automationoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2025
Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 6-9: Looking at a situation from different lensesoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025
Having a process doesn’t mean you get good or consistent resultsoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2025
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.original ↗
22 Jan 2025
Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 5: Attending (more) Closelyoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
Enjoy the processoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2025
Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 4: Ackoff on Systemsoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025
System Seeing Adventure – Day 3: Explore System Conceptsoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2025
The concept of “enough”original ↗
15 Jan 2025
System Seeing Adventure – Day 2: Draw your Org (incl. my take on orgs)original ↗
14 Jan 2025
Enjoying complexityoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2025
Systems Seeing Adventure – Day 1: Draw a Bikeoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2025
Making connections – the rain drop modeloriginal ↗
9 Jan 2025
Time – the forgotten dimensionoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2025
Cycle models are just hiding many small parallel and cascading waterfallsoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2025
The urge for simplicityoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025
Simplicity means shifting complexityoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2025
Let’s get better one day at a timeoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2025

2024

Nobody likes the foundationoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2024
Context, assumptions and why communication sucksoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2024
Complex systems are bound to failoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2024
Differentiae – where is the differenceoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2024
The relation is its own thingoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2024
Why am I writing so much about Systems Thinking?original ↗
13 Dec 2024
Web of Causation and why I don’t like 5 Whysoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2024
Perspectives in systems thinking, again – part 2original ↗
11 Dec 2024
Perspectives in Testingoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2024
Perspectives in systems thinking – part 1original ↗
9 Dec 2024
Simplifying the view doesn’t make the system less complexoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2024
Simple is not the opposite of complexoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2024
When a tester gets the zoomiesoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2024

2023

Software Testing for 20 yearsoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2023

2022

API Testing: Using the Fluent Interface Pattern for JSON Assertionsoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2022
Quality is a complex systemoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2022

2021

The “But” Heuristicoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2021
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