Build a culture of learning by amplifying team wins
Neil Younger talks about amplifying success to drive change in this latest quality coach book article
Tech Leadership
Articles relating to leadership in technology written by Anne-Marie Charrett
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Kent Becks 3X Model and Quality (a quality coach perspective)
Kent Beck describes three different phases of a product, Explore, Expand and Extract. This article looks at quality strategy for each phase to maximise value to both customers and the company.
What's your org optimising for?
💡This is a work in progress. The thoughts are a bit rough and not fully formed. I'm sharing because I'm keen to hear other perspectives to help my concepts take shape. Comments welcome.Â
I've got a hypothesis around organisational structures. It's half-baked
How do you do your testing?
Here's my advice. Stop thinking about testing in phases and begin thinking of testing as an activity. Something done in parallel to your coding instead of after your coding.
Quality Coach Career Paths
Change at the best of times is hard. Clarity on quality coach career paths enables those impacted to make clear and informed decisions on the role. It provides engineering leadership structures to support career growth.
Moving to a Quality Coach Role
The HoQE performs the role of change agent. It's their job to create a space and framework so that the software tester will achieve a successful transition.
Team Topology & Quality Engineering
As director of quality engineering, part of my role is structuring how and where quality sits within a company that's scaling in customer numbers, in terms of architecture and software engineers. Team Topologies written by Matthew Skelton & Manual Pais suggests reversing Conway’s law and providing structures