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Anne-Marie Charrett

Anne-Marie Charrett

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.

In pursuit of coaching excellence

In pursuit of coaching excellence

When you coach a tester you’re working in an environment that dynamically changes as both the student and coach work through a coaching task. If you look at the diagram below you can see all the different attributes that might change throughout a coaching session. Anne-Marie Charrett & James

I am the Queen of Defocus

I am the Queen of Defocus

I remember the day I earned the self acclaimed title of Queen of Defocus. I had been testing for about 3 years and had been hired as the *only* tester in an R&D lab of about thirty engineers. I also happened to be the only female engineer [http:

Training Testers

I’m having a complete blast at the moment adding the finishing touches to my upcoming workshops in Dublin,Belfast and London. The Dublin and Belfast Exploratory Workshops sold out in a couple of days but there are still some seats on the coaching testers workshop in London. [http://www.

Mary Mary Quite Contrary...

Mary Mary Quite Contrary...

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. Its an old english rhyme that goes eons back. In fact, its actual meaning is disputed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Mary,_Quite_Contrary] over time. Meaning

Jumping to conclusions

Jumping to conclusions

Good testers continuously ask questions about the product, the customer and the project environment and invariably on themselves. No question, no test. When we're satisfied with the explanation we stop asking questions, we stop being inquisitive. For testers, it's essential to keep asking questions for as

The School of 1

The School of 1

Like many testers I’ve been watching the unfolding drama of school versus approach that is taking place in Context Driven Testing community with part dismay, part fascination and part anger. That’s a mixed bag of emotions and it bothers me. Two people that I hold in such high

Please don't hire me

Please don't hire me

If you want perfect software and you want me to break your code If you're going to measure me by the number of test scripts I write If you want me to tell you its ready to ship If you wish to have 100% of your product tested