ACT 2 LEAD in English published

Big day! Big news! After a busy summer of translating our successful Finnish ACT 2 LEAD book to English, we were finally ready to push the button and publish the book on Leanpub on Oct 23, 2024. The timing was no coincidence. We had a talk coming up at the SEETEST Sept 27, 2024 conference about the topic of the book: Taking Action to Lead Software Testing. Also, the Finnish book was published exactly 11 months ago - Oct 23, 2023!

The book is now available at https://leanpub.com/act2lead where you can buy it as a PDF version. The super thing about Leanpub is that it allows an iterative way to publish a book. This means that we can, and are even expected to update the book regularly until we have tuned it based on feedback we get from the readers. And, everyone who has bought the book will get all the upcoming versions of the book, too. So, the book just gets better and better!

For the SEETEST conference goers, there's a conference promo code: SEETEST2024 for 20 USD at https://leanpub.com/act2lead/c/SEETEST2024 for the first 100 buyers, valid until Oct 6, 2024. (VAT 0%; the VAT will be added at checkout). So, this is the way we celebrate the publishing of the English edition of the book; we talk about the test leadership at the conference and give a super discount! Be fast to get your copy at a discounted price!

The translation process took time, but we used the AI-enabled translator deepl.com to help us. We got a draft translation that was actually quite good. We reviewed the whole text thoroughly, basically rewriting the draft. We needed to change and harmonize plenty of terms so that testing is easy to understand and also for non-professional testers and other stakeholders. There was also surprisingly much need to change the expressions from passive voice to active voice. Finnish is a passive language. We used Grammarly software to propose what might be more fluent (and active) American English. Finally, we had the fantastic help of Debbie Friedenberg, Phil Royston, and Sue Atkins to provide a native English speaker point of view to the text.

It feels really great to have the English edition available! This has always been the goal, even though we started with the Finnish edition. You could say that the Finnish market acted as a pilot market. Thanks again to all our pilot readers and new readers! The need to understand and lead software testing is the same everywhere in the world. This is important so people would give testing proper attention and thus achieve better software and business - and happier customers. This applies especially to the CxO and director levels in organizations. So, now we have given everyone a tool to understand what testing is and how you should act to lead the software testing. The tool is the heuristic ACT2LEAD, and the book describes this in much more detail, still keeping the expression level suitable for even the busiest audiences.

Check the sample and Table of Contents at https://leanpub.com/act2lead, and of course, buy the book.



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