Foundations of great teams? Start with relationships
Agile, Collaboration, leaders, leadership, management, psychological safety
4 mins reading time
tl;dr: check out my miro model to get the key points.
Good informal relationships are they key to better collaboration https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_khGWgWc=/
Over the last couple of years I've started to see…
My biggest takeaways from AgileTD 2020: The future of testers isn’t in automation or testing
Agile, Collaboration, Kanban, leaders, leadership, links, psychological safety, Quality Awareness, talks, Test automation, testability, Tips, TOC, videos
I was lucky enough to speak at AgileTD this year and also attend some of the talks. These are my main takeaways from the conference based on the talks that I was able to make.
My confirmation bias sense is tingling with this but…
The…
Why do we respond the way we do in social situations?
leadership, management, Neuroscience, psychological safety, Uncategorised
A colleague recently shared an article with me called Managing with the brain in mind. It argues that the workplace is experienced by employees as social structure first then a workplace and that keeping this mind might lead to better employee…
The difference between leaders and managers
complex work, leaders, leadership, management
3 minute read
Tl;dr: Hybrid Leader-managers could be one of the keys to successful software teams but first you need to understand the difference between the two.
A higher quality version of the model can be found on my Miro board.
The…
What is quality?
Agile, leadership, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, TestingPeople view quality with a different lens therefore see the same system differently to one another. We as testers should help our teams to see quality through these different lenses by helping them identify these groups and what their measures of quality are.