Sing your voice
We all have a voice and a song. Sometimes, the song beats loud in our hearts, and sometimes, it's so quiet that you must stop everything else to listen.
It's your song. Only you can sing it. No one can sing your song like you do.
Anne-Marie Charrett
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Recently, I’ve heard references to mediocrity in software testing. Statements like “Tolerance of mediocrity has done massive damage to our testing field". There’s an implicit judgment in this statement. In that word mediocre, there’s a suggestion that many in the software engineering field are somehow negligent,
Agency is ours to keep
In software testing, an activity that provides information on the state of quality, we're often in a position where we say "If only". If only we could get developers to do better unit testing if only the requirements were more complete. If only people kept us
🍾 HYN Quality Coach Newsletter 22
Tester or Quality Coach?
The provocative title of this month's post is "Should my company ditch testers and use Quality Coaches instead?" It's that unspoken question that CEOs and testers want to ask. After all, if a CEO can get quality at half the
Should my company ditch Testers and use Quality Coaches instead?
TL;DR: Quality coaching is a model you grow into, not adopt. That's because testing is an acquired skill, and teams must learn how to test. Pairing is an optimal way to learn about testing. As teams learn about risks, test design, and exploratory testing, they can preempt
Quality Coach Newsletter 21
This month's guest writer, Allison Lazarz explains how a story impact checklist can help us improve quality.
Story Impact Checklists in Sprint Planning
Alison's article shows us how we can improve product quality early in sprint planning by adopting a checklist to prompt thinking on testing.
Move at the speed of trust
"Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than critical mass—build the resilience by building the relationships." - Adrienne Maree Brown
What is trust?
Trust, according to my go-to source of truth, The Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman, is built on four