
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…

August - Toread
Agile, code coverage, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips
31st August
📻 How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People? If you manage people then this podcast is worth a listen. Having a better understanding of why we compare ourselves to others (social creatures living in hierarchical structures) and…

July - Toread
Agile, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips
At the intersection of software, technology and people
What is this?
Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of the links…

Future of testers: somewhere between users, teams and businesses
Agile, Collaboration, Quality Awareness, testability, Testing
3 minute read
I've been thinking a lot recently about what the future of the testers role could look like. Especially in teams that not only fully embrace CI/CD or DevOps but actually get some way towards implementing the ideas behind the…

What do testers do next?
Agile, QA, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, TestingIf the perceived value of testers is just to test the changes made by the development team then the future of the testers role looks bleak but could it be more than this?

Building a quality culture: Is it quality assurance or quality awareness?
QA, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, TipsA way to see if the work your are doing in your team is about building team awareness or team assurance of quality