Heather Shanholtzer

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8 years 3 months

After fourteen years of helping software professionals find their writer's voice, Heather is still excited to discover new talent and she relishes the opportunity to work with industry experts, practitioners, and craftspeople.

Company

SQE

Job Function

Project Management

Job Title

Director of Publishing

Industry

Other

Interests

Configuration Management

Design

Process Improvement

Requirements

Software Testing

Country

United States

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	Agile Trends to Watch in 2018With 2018 well underway, it seems like a good time to look ahead and think about what we hope to accomplish this year. Find out which agile trends these software experts are most looking forward to in the coming months.
	Top 10 AgileConnection Articles of 2017Agile software development is mainstream by now, but people are still finding ways to experiment with agile. Measuring agile success with metrics, the debate over whether to use estimates, and improving predictability in Scrum were all hot topics last year. The rise of DevOps has given even more material for people curious to adopt the practice, so automation and "continuous everything" were also popular subjects.
	Top 10 StickyMinds Articles of 2017With the rise of technology like AI and practices like DevOps, teams everywhere are looking for ways to speed up testing without sacrificing quality. The articles in 2017 reflect that, with the most popular topics being test automation, testing machine learning systems, next-generation exercises, and the future of software testing. If you're looking for cutting-edge testing techniques, check out this roundup.
	2016 Top 10 StickyMinds ArticlesAs 2016 draws to a close, we at TechWell took a look back at the topics that most interested our StickyMinds readers. We hope you enjoy this curated list of top-ranking articles and interviews covering everything in the software testing industry from Selenium and test automation to API testing, kanban, and the future of the software testing profession.
	Top 10 AgileConnection Articles of 2016There is no question that agile has gone mainstream. If you aren't already using at least some agile methods, you soon will be. TechWell took a look at which topics the growing agile community cares most about and put together a list of the most popular AgileConnection stories and interviews of 2016. From failing Scrum teams and successful agile communication to facilitating feedback and simplifying user stories, we've curated the content you need to read as we head into a new year.
	A Conversation with Rajini Padmanaban Rajini Padmanaban is the director of engagement at QA InfoTech. She will be speaking about crowdsourced software testing at the STAREAST conference in April, so I took this opportunity to learn a bit more about crowdsourced testing and find out why it is better than traditional testing in some projects.