About

Welcome to the Leading Testing Activities newsletter and Ghost site. I intend to write about test strategy, leading testing, and compliance activities as an individual contributor on a staff career level.

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As long as this this a hobby project to me, the posts are free. The site is funded out of pocket not by subscribtion.

My blog "Complexity Is A Matter of Perspective" has had a good run from 2012 until now, with 300+ blog posts on various testing, test strategy, and related topics. Over time, the blog posts have been featured in leading curated newsletters in the testing field.

My published books on strategy, leadership, and staff-level roles:

  • Staff-Level Testing Roles, Career Paths for High-Level Testing Roles, TBD 2025 on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/sltrbook/
  • Leading Testing Activities, A Guidebook for New Leaders of Testing, > 2024 on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/ltabook and Amazon Kindle Print on Demand.
  • Goal-Aligned Test Strategies, Using Wardley Maps to visualize test strategies and align the test strategies with business goals, 2022. -> Available on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/goatsbook and Amazon Kindle Print on Demand.

About me

I’m located in Aarhus, Denmark, and we are both Scandinavian and EU. Most of my experience comes from 20 years in local IT consulting companies that deliver IT services to large local organizations and companies with an international footprint. What I experience as a white, middle-aged male here is probably less extreme than in the US and the UK. But we do have our own systemic challenges, underrepresented groups, and minorities. Hidden disabilities have been here all along.

You can find me on

  • LinkedIn
  • Mastodon
  • Bluesky
  • GitHub

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Leading Testing ActivitiesLeading Testing Activities is an independent publication launched by Jesper Ottosen on April 28, 2024. It is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.