Anne-Marie Charrett

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Articles relating to leadership in technology written by Anne-Marie Charrett

Supporting the whistleblowers

Supporting the whistleblowers

Whistleblowers I’ve written before on how software testers think differently and play a different role to others in a technical team. In the past, a typical non testing view of the role was gatekeeper. This didn’t turn out so well. The history of quality and software testers is

Be your best self

Be your best self

Leadership is being your best self. Easy to say, harder to implement. For starters, what the hell does ” be your best self” mean? And why is that leadership? For me, being my best self, doesn’t mean achieving goals. It doesn’t mean going to the gym, eating the right

Questions over Answers

Questions over Answers

Growing up, I remember listening to Bob Dylan on the radio with perplexment. He would sing: > “the answer my friend is blowing in the wind” To a twelve year old, this made little sense. How could wind, something invisible, fluid and uncontrollable provide any solution, any answer? And because

Look for the helpers

Look for the helpers

* Its not about winners and losers * It’s not about right versus left * Its not about good or bad, right or wrong * Its not about pass or fail, testing versus checking, manual versus automation Its’s about the helpers. Always look for the helpers [https://youtu.be/-LGHtc_D328]. It’

Coaching Upwards

Coaching Upwards

I struggle to complete blog posts. Lena Wiberg [https://twitter.com/LenaPejgan] suggested we do pair-blogging on a same topic. It’s a great idea. Here’s my version. Lena’s angle is more personal and I love it. You can read it here. Thanks Lena for the suggestion. This

Test Management Revisited

Test Management Revisited

The concept of test management sits awkwardly in agile, mostly because it’s a construct derived from the time when testing was a post-development phase, performed by independent testing teams. These teams were often of significant size, to reduce the time required to perform test execution. A test manager was

#NoBlogPost

Today I woke up early determined to return to my blog on the bus series. A couple of reasons why. 1. I’ve found it liberating to not worry over being a perfectionist on writing the perfect sentence, phrase, or point. 2. Loads of people at Agile Testing Days told

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