Anne-Marie Charrett

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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.

A scrum in Croke Park

A scrum in Croke Park

I’m attending the SQS conference on Software Testing in Croke Park, Dublin. I thought it was appropriate to go to an Agile Testing session involving Scrum amongst other techniques in the same hallowed ground where not to recently a game of Rugby was played out between England and Ireland.

I'm glad I'm not a piece of software

I'm glad I'm not a piece of software

I joke about my personal development lifecycle (PDLC) as my work in test management often requires consistency & repeatability in the form of a test process. In comparison my own PDLC is often very erratic and ill behaved. In fact its not really a typical lifecycle at all except perhaps

Observations on Offshoring your Software Testing

Have you noticed that there is something about having people nearby that instills a sense of confidence in the work being performed? There is something about having a tester in the same country as you that generates security. So it was with a bit of reluctance that I took on

If you want to be a millionaire - phone a friend

If you want to be a millionaire - phone a friend

I was asked to quote for a job recently on some testing in an area that I had little experience in. After confidently replying to the customer “no problem, I’ll have a quote to you by the end of the day…”, I started googling furiously, trying to gain some

Engineers make awful sales people

Engineers make awful sales people

I had an interesting conversation today about the ability of engineers to be able to sell their services. As a one-woman band type consultant, I don’t have the luxury of a sales force that markets my wares in an enticing way. I rely heavily on referrals and the fact

Is document a dirty word in Exploratory Testing?

Is document a dirty word in Exploratory Testing?

I went on James Bach’s Rapid Software Testing (RST) course because some of the concepts and ideas that I had read about exploratory testing and RST appealed to me. I liked the idea that central to testing is a critical and context-driven approach and I also wanted to put

Celebrate your wins in software testing

Celebrate your wins in software testing

Too often software testers are the bearers of bad news: “There is a major defect that will stop us rolling out to production on time” “We have to increase the budget to ensure that the system is properly tested” The more I roll software testing concepts to companies, the more