---
title: "Sometimes I'm simply frustrated at the qualification game"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/10/sometimes-im-simply-frustrated-at-the-qualification-game.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/10/sometimes-im-simply-frustrated-at-the-qualification-game.html"
published: "2004-10-10T23:35:00"
updated: "2004-10-10T23:35:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "and that's all I'm gonna say on this matter. (were you lucky to read this post before I changed my mind on it ? don't tell me..)"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Sometimes I'm simply frustrated at the qualification game

By Roy Osherove October 10, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 10, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

and that's all I'm gonna say on this matter.

_(were you lucky to read this post before I changed my mind on it ? don't tell me..)_

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

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- Oct 14, 2004

    ### [Unread Gmail messages through an RSS feed? coolness.](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/14/unread-gmail-messages-through-an-rss-feed-coolness.html)

- Oct 9, 2004

    ### [ZoomQuilt?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/9/zoomquilt.html)

- Oct 4, 2004

    ### [The Power of User Groups (and a request to Microsoft Israel)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/4/the-power-of-user-groups-and-a-request-to-microsoft-israel.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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