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Here are web sites I often point people at.

James Bach and Satisfice, Inc
James is probably most known for his "good enough" model of software development. The name leads to knee-jerk reactions ("good enough for government work" = "bad"). But the intent is to enable project teams to think hard about quality means to this project at this point, instead of relying on prejudice or long-out-of-date planning. There's is much other good stuff on his web site (except the part where he calls me "guileless"). I want to take James's exploratory testing course some day.
Extreme Programming at xprogramming.com and extremeprogramming.org
Extreme programming is a style of rapid application development that has some extremely interesting features. I'm particularly taken with pair programming (all code is written by two people sitting at a terminal) and the notion of not designing code to support future extensions (because you're wrong enough often enough that a refactor-as-needed approach works better).
Doug Hoffman
Doug has a lot of experience at a broad range of Silicon Valley companies. I particularly like his ideas about test automation, such as heuristic oracles.
Cem Kaner
Cem Kaner is the senior author of Testing Computer Software (Kaner, Falk, Nguyen) and Lessons Learned in Software Testing (Kaner, Bach, Petticord). There are a number of good papers on his site. I've taken his three-day Testing Computer Software course and recommend it.
Bret Pettichord
Bret and I are doing work on agile testing and test automation. Bret's testing hotlist is deservedly popular.
Johanna Rothman and Rothman Consulting Group
Johanna is a management consultant. Although she's never been my manager, I'd greet that prospect with joy, rather than my usual edginess or outright dread. I like her ideas for dealing with projects in trouble.
Bob Stahl and the Testing Center
There are some online testing courses at this site. I've sampled a few parts of them and thought they were good.

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