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Marcus Blankenship

Marcus Blankenship
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10 years 5 months

I get paid to coach newly minted technical managers, consultancy owners and startups.

I specialize in agile consulting and helping developers make the leap from Maker to Manager.

My clients quickly feel dramatically more confident and capable and start seeing better performance from themselves and their team within weeks.

Company
MarcusBlankenship.com
Job Function
Consulting
Job Title
Coach, Trainer, Author
Industry
Computer Software - SaaS
Interests
Agile
Architecture
Business Analysis
Cloud
Configuration Management
Design
Development Lifecycles
DevOps
Embedded Systems
IT Operations
Leadership
Lean
Mobile
Open Source
Performance Testing
Plan-driven Development
Process Improvement
Programming
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Releases
Requirements
Security
Test Automation
Testing
Country
United States
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hands holding letter Dear Software Development Manager: A Letter from Your Testers

More and more, testers are being added to programming teams. We testers think that's great, and we're happy to be here. But we also have some concerns based on our interactions with development teams in the past. To make the transition easier, here's a letter pointing out some things you should know when managing testers on your development team.
jumbled communication Who Is the Real Product Owner?

Communication is always vital on an agile project to ensure everyone is on the same page, but it's perhaps most important in a relationship between a vendor and a customer. Here, Marcus Blankenship relates a personal story about a project where communication failed, and gives some good tips for how to avoid it happening to you.