Workroom Playtime 038: Parts for Tools
This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 13 November at 5pm London time. That's 5pm. 5. I might just have Bart Knack and Huib Schoots with me...
We'll gather on Zoom to work with a short exercise about custom tools. In it, we'll think about and play with choosing what you'll make your custom tools from, and what you'll use those parts for. This will become part of a tutorial at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam in November.
These exercises are for everyone, for free. Subscribers get to play together every week. If you can see a joining info section below, then that gives you access to the Zoom etc. for the workshop. If you'd like to bring a friend, you can do that. I'll say yes until I've got too many.
This is your last chance to see the trial run of Testing Transparently – the keynote that Elizabeth Zagroba and I are working on for ATD. We'll do it on Zoom at 9:30am (UK time) on Friday 14 November. That's this week. Ping me for an invite if you've not already heard from us.
Bart Knaack and Huib Schoots and I planned to run a bigger chunk of the Crafting Custom Tools tute. Can't guarantee it at this late stage, but email me to find out if and when we do.
Here's a rough plan of what I plan to cover in the rest of the year:
03920 November: «something fun»04027 November: from ATD!0414 December: Building exploratory interfaces (longer session)04211 December: a New Blackbox puzzle04318 December: Going meta – let's build short exercises!
I don't think we'll do 25th December, or 1 January (you might have something planned, yourself). So that's a full year of Workroom PlayTime – thank you for coming on this journey.
In 2026, we'll do more puzzles, more stuff for speakers, more thinking... and maybe fewer tools. I'll re-run some exercises, and experiment more with timings and lengths.
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