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I've owned a blog since 2006 and have been writing ever since here are my posts.

Five Crimes against Testing

Five Crimes against Testing

Five crimes against testing that I see repeatedly executed. Testing and Quality are the same things Just because you test, it doesn’t mean you have a quality product. Sounds obvious right? But why then is quality assigned to one person. Why have a Quality Gatekeeper? Testing shines a light

Quality and the Toyota Production Model

Quality and the Toyota Production Model

I saw this tweet the other day prompting this post on quality, visualisation and quality at pace. > Don't worry @Tracey_san, I am not going to tweet the entire book. "The Toyota Engagement Equation." #lean [https://twitter.com/hashtag/lean?src=hash&ref_src=

Test Leadership is here to stay

Test Leadership is here to stay

In his article “What leaders do” [https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj316Sl0MLSAhXHtpQKHSnUAMgQFgggMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhbr.org%2F2001%2F12%2Fwhat-leaders-really-do&usg=AFQjCNHJk95brQjOtTMk0v_

Quality Workshop

Quality Workshop

One sure way to liven up a meeting is to ask attendees for a definition of quality. My experience has been that this is most entertaining particularly if you have both devops and testing in the room. It turns out that many people feel very passionate about Quality. It also

What Teenagers and MVP have in common

Teenage children can be the classic MVP’s (Minimal Viable Products) in action. Here’s why: 1. They tend to be self deterministic 2. They tend to experiment constantly 3. They don’t attempt to predict the future but learn from their experiments 4. They typically have no endstate in

Building the Quality Inn

Building the Quality Inn

Building Quality In integral part of moving to a DevOps culture, at least according to the State of DevOps 2016 [https://puppet.com/resources/report/2016-state-devops-report/]. But what exactly does that mean? Sure, the report cites Deming, in particular “Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for

Nuance on leaving testing to the experts

Nuance on leaving testing to the experts

Yesterday I wrote a blog post entitled “Leave Testing to the Experts” [https://www.annemariecharrett.com/leave-the-testing-to-the-experts] to which Maaret quickly reacted online and by a post where she strongly disagreed with the sentiment. Disagreement is a very useful tool to clarify your thinking, so thanks Maaret!. It’s allowed