
12 things I learnt from Agile Manchester 2023
Agile, working smarterMy key highlight and insights from 3 days of Agile Manchester 2023

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.

13 things I've learned from running remote workshops
Agile, Collaboration, complex work, remote working, working smarter
Over the last 12-18 months I've been running a lot of remote workshops and during that time I've learned a few valuable lessons along the way. Most of my experience is based on translating and running an in-person workshop to a remote online…

Speed Vs Quality: Can you have both?
Agile, continuous improvement, incremental improvements, quality, speed, working smarter
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I was recently part of a panel discussion around the topic “What is quality?” and an interesting question came up. Is it always a choice between speed of delivery and the quality of that delivery? The thinking…