QC newsletter 41: I've been writing. Just not sending
A round-up of quality coach articles, events and articles from the quality coach book and community.
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Not technical enough: Really?
Meet my shadow. Her name is "Not technical enough" and she's been walking beside me for all of my working career.
It doesn't matter that I studied engineering at university
It doesn't matter that I learnt to program in my first role
Staying Sane in a Post Modern Tech world
Before I start, I want to be clear. 2025 was an awesome year. I got to attend some incredible conferences such as Yow!, Agile Testing Days, Testing Talks. Plus, I got to attend a Kent Beck workshop kindly hosted by my work.
I co-led a tutorial with Fiona Charles on
My Genie Got It Wrong: Evaluating LLMs for a RAG Chatbot
How do you choose the right LLM for a RAG chatbot? I compared Llama 70B, 405B, and GPT-4 across 100 iterations. The AI agent's recommendation was wrong.
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Introducing the Quality Coach Researcher
I wrote The Quality Coach's Handbook as a practical guide, something you can pick up for an answer when a question at work arises. Now I wonder if a chatbot could supplement the book by quickly locating relevant content?
I decided to build the Quality Coach Researcher, an
The girl in the purple jeans
The girl in the purple jeans plucks at her embroidered threads.
The sun shines on her face, blessing her.
She plucks a flower and twirls it between her fingers.
How can she know that in that moment, she’s to become a symbol of
a time when no fear exists,
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💰The cost of change
Framing change in the language of business can be an effective way to communicate strategy to business stakeholders and senior management. And there's nothing like talking money to get their attention.
Boehm knew this and used this language in the 1980s when he explored
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Knowing what you can and can't control helps manage expectations. Over time, you can look for ways to incorporate some of these factors into your circle of influence. This article includes a download to help you determine what you can and
