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Follow the Energy by A Charrett - picture of women playing rugby

Follow the Energy

Motivating a team when you're not on the team is tricky business. You could be expected to conduct a workshop to identify a quality strategy. Yet, you might not have all the context available to know what risks exist and why obstacles exist. What you call quality activities,

Charlie Mackesy

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.

The Extraordinary in the Ordinary

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

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

A fairytale about quality coaches

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

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Improve Your Sprint Planning with the Story Impact Checklist

Move at the speed of trust

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