
How We Built Testability with Psychological Safety [External post]
Agile, Collaboration, complex work, feedback, leadership, psychological safety, testability, trust, working smarter
Ben Linders recently interviewed me for my talk at AgileTD on how we failed at testability. That resulted in this InfoQ post about how to build in testability you need developers and testers to collaborate. But to be able to do that, you need…

The courage to supercharge your testability
Agile, Collaboration, continuous improvement, feedback, incremental improvements, leadership, psychological safety, QA, relationships, testability, Testing, Uncategorised, working smarterTestability is all about building quality-in. It's about identifying known issues before they become a problem while coding. Pairing testers into this process can supercharge the testability feedback loop. It can allow you to pick up known and unknown issues. But pairing devs and testers together needs courage.

Three things of 2021
Agile, continuous improvement, DevOps, feedback, incremental improvements, psychological safety
Every week I spend some time reflecting on what I learned or found interesting and this is a summary of my year. After doing this for nearly 3 years one of the biggest ways it's helped me with is seeing the thread through my work which reminds…

The risk with direct questions
Agile, Collaboration, feedback, leadership, psychological safety, questions, relationships, trust
The risk with the direct question is that the person being asked could assume intent within the question. E.g. asking what risk there in this release could be assumed that you think there is a risk in the release or that you don’t trust the…

Scales of Collaboration
Agile, Collaboration, feedback, leadership, management, visulisationThe scales of collaboration can help you and your teams to work more effectively by improve your collaboration. It allows you to measure how you are currently collaborating and what you can do to improve its effectiveness. But what's wrong with our current approach and how do you use the scale?

Exploratory and Automated testing: Using the right techniques in the wrong contexts
Checks Vs Testing, contract testing, feedback, quality, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testingExploratory testing is about testing in an unpredictable context and therefore detecting unpredictable failures in our software. Automated testing is about testing in a predictable context and therefore detecting predictable failures. The mistake we make with automation is we try to apply it to the wrong context

What are your default settings?
feedback, leadership, Neuroscience, psychological safety, willpowerWhat are the defaults that we use when thinking and how do they affect our analysis of situations and decisions

Three things of 2020
Collaboration, feedback, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety, Tips
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Below are three things that when I reflect back on 2020 that stand out to me. I’ve purposely not mentioned COVID because I think this is one thing that all of us would have on our list so didn't think there was anything…

How to learn from failure
Agile, feedback, psychological safety, quality, Reading[Organisations] that catch, correct, and learn from failure before others do will succeed - Amy Edmundson

How to move away from the In Test column
Agile, feedback, Kanban, Testing, Tips, TOC, visulisationWe as testers are always looking at ways to improve our testing processes and one way to do that is to move away from the In Test column. You can read more about the why in my post "In Test" column but the how I left pretty vague. I'd like to…