A look back at the year on StickyMinds

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Sandy Sidhu
December 18, 2013

Here's a look back at some of the top stories and tweets on StickyMinds. 

Top 5 Stories

7 Keys To Building Great Work Teams Successful projects depend on how well the team works together. Elements that lead to success include commitment, contribution, good communication, and cooperation. Cooperation itself includes factors such as follow-through, timeliness, and others. No team is perfect-conflict management and change management are also important. This article analyzes and explains all of these elements that constitute a productive and successful team.


State Transition Diagrams This is the fourth and last in a series of articles written to, a) introduce you to the most important diagrams used in object-oriented development (use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, and state-transition diagrams); b) describe the UML notation used for these diagrams; and c) give you as a tester a set of practical questions you can ask to evaluate the quality of these object-oriented diagrams.

How To Hire A QA Person This article provides a guide for hiring a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) specialist. It provides tips on what questions to ask and what problems to avoid in order to hire the right person.

Maximizing the Effectiveness of A Subject Matter Expert A Subject Matter Expert (SME) can provide valuable insights to a project implementing a software system. But how the SME will interact with the project sponsoring her, or what exactly the SME will be expected to contribute are often nebulous concepts. The process of selecting an SME is often misunderstood. This article offers a few guidelines and pointers to help QA managers maximize the benefits of working with an SME.

Helpful Hints for Interviewing Experienced QA/Testing Candidates This article introduces suggested questions that can be presented to a candidate interviewing for a QA/Testing position. The suggested questions would help a test manager assess a candidate's knowledge of QA concepts and technical skills. The test manager can create a sample set of questions from this article and that will help them form a framework for efficiently interviewing future candidates.

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