Quality: We need to talk about accountability
We all have accountabilities in quality. But what they are will vary according to role and seniority.
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Quality Coach Newsletter 18
This month Neil Younger returns with the final of his three post series on developing engineering cultures. Today's post on developing a growth-based framework builds on Neil's two previous posts; building a learning culture by amplifying team wins and accelerating a quality culture through building engineering capability.
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Boost your engineering capability with this growth-focused framework
ℹ️In this article, we will use the term ‘Engineering Capability’ to mean the practices and approaches we use to get work done within an engineering department.
This article extends and references the work of two previous publications in this series. Namely ‘Accelerate your quality culture by identifying your engineering
🦋Quality Coach Newsletter 17
Prevent, Detect, Recover
Three words to get your team starting to think about quality right away! 😉. Prevent, Detect, Recover (PDR) is one of my favourite concepts to use with teams. It sticks and helps teams understand that quality is broader than testing.
The latest quality coach article is on this
Prevent, Detect, Recover
Prevent, Detect, Recover (PDR) is a thinking tool I use to help teams consider quality beyond testing. PDR stands for:
* Prevent: activities that can be performed to prevent incidents happening in the first place.
* Detect: activities or approaches that allow the discovery of incidents before deployment and release. Testing is
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Quality Coach Newsletter 16
This month Neil Younger returns with another punchy post on accelerating a culture of quality by identifying company engineering needs. This build on Neil's original post on building a culture of learning by amplifying team wins.
Accelerate your quality culture by identifying your engineering capability needsHome of Quality Coach Book.
Advocacy for less testing
As a strategy, I'm a fan of minimising the number of end-to-end1 tests a team owns and runs. However, this advocacy for less testing can be a difficult sell. Software Engineers and testers express their reservations about adopting such a strategy.
Good Reasons for End-to-End Tests
End-to-end tests are great.
Build a culture of learning by amplifying team wins
Are you your missing leg?
Change isn't always difficult. There are lots of things about change I adore. I like getting pay raises. I like getting job promotions. I like it when my partner organizes a surprise event for us.
And I like driving change. I like seeing gaps in quality and setting about improving
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