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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.

Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

I’ve had a couple of ‘epiphanies’ this morning and consequently have that weird floaty, happy/anxious feeling that I get at moments like this. I didn’t go to StarEast but I, along with countless other software testers have been watching the virtual show through twitter. Some of it

When the dog bites, when the bee stings....

When the dog bites, when the bee stings....

I wonder if the software testing community has a collective consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness] ? So often I go to write a post on something that I’ve been thinking about and wham, some great blogger has posted it before me, expressing in far more succinctly than

Testing a SaaS Platform

I thoroughly enjoyed the webinar yesterday by Joel Montvelisky [http://qablog.practitest.com/] on Testing on the Cloud. Its of keen interest to many Irish Tech companies, so I was happy to organise on the behalf of SoftTest a webinar for its members. Softtest [http://softtest.ie]is the Irish

Mind mapping your testing strategy

Mind mapping your testing strategy

I recently was asked to do a talk on software testing for a group of iPhone developers. I decided to speak to them at a practical level and talk about how I approach software testing, as I wanted them to understand that there are different ways you can perform software

Irish hosted webinar: Testing for the cloud

As a member of the working committee for Softtest.ie, we have been investigating different ways to communicate with our software testing community. One suggestion was to hold some webinars.I’ve been availing of my contacts in the online networking community to source some testers willing to discuss their

Kids, Kittens and Karma

Have I ever written about how competitive I am? Lets just say I like to win. A lot. Best explained by an example I think. In my heyday I was a bit of a runner. Not a bad one, but not the best and I knew it. My favourite race

Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, “the gift of the gab” eludes me, often leaving me tongue tied and twisted when selling my wares. Its one of the reasons I have got myself a business mentor. His main focus has been for