Be like mist
When your role is an influencing one, with little direct control, focus on seeding ideas and providing options, less on making obvious impact
Tech Leadership
Articles relating to leadership in technology written by Anne-Marie Charrett
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Decoding the Dance: Customer Value Meets Quality
I suggest we begin exploring different ways to think about quality. Let's take a step back and critique our existing assumptions on quality. If we question what we accept as truth in testing, we may begin to identify new ways of achieving quality products that our customers really value.
Cost of Change in SaaS
Boehm's cost of change model has changed over the years. This article looks at the cost of change in SaaS and how it has changed the curve once again.
Tails don't wag, dogs do
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.
3 Lens Quality Assistance Model
What to consider when transitioning to a quality assistance model
Product Excellence - Continuous Quality from Discovery to Support
Overview
Introducing Product Excellence, a new framework that creates a single view of quality across discovery and delivery.
Delivering small batches of customer value in isolation comes with a cost. As a strategy for risk reduction, it wins hands down. It can come up short as a strategy for delivering
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,