Everyone owns quality. Nobody knows what that means
When organisations cut QA headcount, they redistribute the work without redistributing the definition — and most of the time, nobody notices until production does.
Anne-Marie Charrett
Contract Testing Isn't the Hard Part
Product teams mostly know the value of contract testing. The hard part is implementation. Where do they start? A reusable AI playbook — built on risk reasoning — can give them that starting point in minutes.
QC newsletter 41: I've been writing. Just not sending
A round-up of quality coach articles, events and articles from the quality coach book and community.
Not technical enough: Really?
Meet my shadow. Her name is "Not technical enough" and she's been walking beside me for all of my working career.
It doesn't matter that I studied engineering at university
It doesn't matter that I learnt to program in my first role
Staying Sane in a Post Modern Tech world
Before I start, I want to be clear. 2025 was an awesome year. I got to attend some incredible conferences such as Yow!, Agile Testing Days, Testing Talks. Plus, I got to attend a Kent Beck workshop kindly hosted by my work.
I co-led a tutorial with Fiona Charles
My Genie Got It Wrong: Evaluating LLMs for a RAG Chatbot
How do you choose the right LLM for a RAG chatbot? I compared Llama 70B, 405B, and GPT-4 across 100 iterations. The AI agent's recommendation was wrong.
Quality Coach newsletter #39
A round-up of quality coach articles, events and articles from the quality coach book and community.