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Anne-Marie Charrett

Anne-Marie Charrett

Sydney, Australia

Tech Leadership. Founder of Testing Times. Anne-Marie advocates a whole quality approach to modern engineering practises. Author Quality Coaching Book. Keynote Speaker Founder SpeakEasy Diversity.

13 Low Cost Ideas to start Quality Coaching right away!*

13 Low Cost Ideas to start Quality Coaching right away!*

The idea of being a Quality Coach or starting a Quality Coach program can seem overwhelming. Where do you actually start? You might get advice like the one above from the King in Alice in Wonderland gave which can seem profound, but in concrete terms, not very helpful! The scope

Indulge the Hunch

Indulge the Hunch

Have you ever been in a new city or town and been tempted to take a shortcut that you don’t know will actually be short? A hunch tells you it will be quicker. What do you do? Will you take the risk and go with your gut? Or, will

QA Career Development

QA Career Development

We had the first Quality Engineering Lean Coffee and the following topics: * QA Career Development * How to assess quality practices and maturity of a team * How to attract people to get into a quality career * What can help testers when there is no BS or RS documentation * QA versus Dev

Options not Obligations

Options not Obligations

tl;dr We want to provide our consumers and business partners options as opposed to obliging them by providing only one option. By “Designing in options” for your business partners and consumers, you provide them with the ability to take the greater risk while minimising the impact of failure for

Threats to Quality

Threats to Quality

If, as Gerry Weinberg states Quality is “value to some person” …then the corollary stands that risk is anything that threatens that value. This can be useful because Quality is an amorphous, shapeshifter, notoriously difficult to nail down. Its final judge is not us but our consumers. I compare quality

software development quality by BBV

Emergent Quality

Quality is an emergent property of the system. Focus on improving the system to improve product quality.

#NoBlogPost

Today I woke up early determined to return to my blog on the bus series. A couple of reasons why. 1. I’ve found it liberating to not worry over being a perfectionist on writing the perfect sentence, phrase, or point. 2. Loads of people at Agile Testing Days told