Monthly Newsletter

🔭 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. This article includes a download to help you determine what you can and

🔭 3 Lens Quality Assitance Model The three-lens quality assistance model encourages you to consider the role of a quality coach in the context of your existing product engineering constructs. How will a quality coach impact these teams and the organisation? How will people need to think differently? How must roles

Product Excellence Are you tired of convincing Product Managers to take extra time to build quality? Would you rather your role focus on the relationship between product and customer instead of user story and assert? Take a look at my Product Excellence framework. It takes a holistic view of quality

Motivation as a Quality Coach Moving to a quality coach role can be slightly confronting if you've typically worked within a single team. There's a certain amount of confidence required to jump into a new context who, for whatever reason, may be reluctant to include you

Tester or Quality Coach? The provocative title of this month's post is "Should my company ditch testers and use Quality Coaches instead?" It's that unspoken question that CEOs and testers want to ask. After all, if a CEO can get quality at half the

This month's guest writer, Allison Lazarz explains how a story impact checklist can help us improve quality. Story Impact Checklists in Sprint Planning Alison's article shows us how we can improve product quality early in sprint planning by adopting a checklist to prompt thinking on testing.