Quality Coaching Roadshow

In this episode, we talk about observability from a performance engineering perspective. We talk about how this new emphasis on observability is a game changer for performance engineering, typically once viewed as a solo activity, but not something that benefits the whole team. Some good quotes: "the whole, the whole rationale for investing in observability practices, changing your

In this episode, Abby talks about Site Reliability Engineering, Service Level Objectives, Toil, the power of Storytelling, influencing Management and why Quality Coaching and Site Reliability Engineering have a lot in common.

In this episode, we talk about large projects, how to explain our job to non-technical people within an organisation and creating a shared vision of success to enrich the UAT process. We also talk about Mentoring, Enthusiasm, Empathy and Community.

In this episode we talk a lot about learning, different approaches to learning, being a catalyst within an organisation and sitting with discomfort. Some classic Maaret quotes: "Automation is how we document Exploratory Testing" "FAIL - First Attempt at Learning""Accepting the discomfort of not knowing is a skill"Next episode completes the discussion. Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a feedba

We continue our conversation with Beth Skurrie co-founder of pactflow.io and all round awesome person. We continue talking about PACT applied, making conscious decisions around tool selection and keeping tech relevant. Some 'more' Bethesque quotes"end to end test are the wrong type of tests to check low level, request and response fields""what it does is it gives us the right tool

In this episode we talk to Beth Skurrie co-founder of pactflow.io and all round awesome person. We talk about quality (of course!) and what quality is from a coding perspective. The difficulty in using tools to assist in quality. Levels of abstraction and the test automation pyramid and how its useful in trade offs. Plus some stuff on when to write tests. Some Bethesque quotes"Thes

In this episode, Tim talks about how collaboration, visualisation and metrics in an open organisation can help teams to achieve exceptional business outcomes. We also discuss plumbers.

This is the final part of a three part chat (for the moment) with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about what's next for agile teams and testing and the importance of taking small steps. We also mention not being taken in by smoke and mirrors, resilience, observability and complexity.

This is the second part of a three part chat with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about remote working and coaching remotely, consulting vs coaching, finding a Purpose, Pomodoro and taking small steps when in unchartered waters. Plus, more about donkeys.

This is the first part of a three part chat with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about the similarities between quality coaching and whole-team quality and we also talk about Elephants and Donkeys!