Workroom PlayTime 050: Power of Variety

Mar 3, 2026

This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 5 March at 2:30pm London time. That's 2:30 – half past the hour. If you've seen the email, you'll know that I mentioned 3 March in the subject. Ooops.

Throughout March, we'll run exercises to work through some ideas around how much we might spend testing, when we might stop, and how we might set up our test team and their skills. It's all about discovery, test management and handling a gamble, and it uses a toy simulation to get the ideas moving. This first one is The Power of Variety

An experiment: use this Savvycal link to put a note in your calendar and get an email beforehand. You don't need to do this to come, but I'd love to find out how it works for you. Be aware – I think it will show your name and email to other attendees. If that's a bother, don't use it – I'm trying to see if I can turn off the feature, but haven't yet found a way.

We'll gather on Zoom. 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.

I'm still gathering audience for the Interesting Testing Longplayer, I don't have enough people to run it at the end of this week. So I'm re-scheduling to later in March – pick a day / time that works for you.

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James Lyndsay

Getting better at software testing. Singing in Bulgarian. Staying in. Going out. Listening. Talking. Writing. Making.