Quality Coach: a team approach to mapping "the work" Today, I'm doing a deep dive into early and frequent feedback as a way to improve overall product quality.
Situational Quality Coaching (when to coach, train & mentor) Fun fact, a quality coach doesn't only coach; they also mentor, train and facilitate1. This article explores when to coach, train, and mentor a product team on quality. Coaching, Mentoring, Training Coaching, Mentoring & training are different teaching methods and valuable parts of your quality coach makeup bag.
What is a Quality Coach? Defining the term quality coach and explaining this role in software engineering in contemporary organisations
Habits and Shu Ha Ri Whatever happened to Shu Ha Ri? It was the bees-knees of learning processes about 4 years ago. Now crickets...or perhaps I'm not moving in the right circles. Anywhooo, had a lunch chat with the lovely Paul Hughes from CultureAmp. (If you're wondering, he ate healthy
Habits in Quality I often get asked as a quality coach, how do you get teams to do more software testing? It's a tricky one, because as quality coach you don't have any direct authority over anyone in the team. You could try and tell them to do it,
It's all one elephant Recently, I posted on twitter a representation of how I see the differences between coaching, mentoring and training. The lens I chose to look through was that of direction. How much the person coaching, is actively providing guidance. Its just a question of quality - quality strategy https://t.co/
3 Amigos - a sequel In agile, the 3 Amigos is a collaboration event that takes place between QA, Product and Engineering right before the start of software development. The purpose is develop a shared understanding over what is being built, and what will be tested In this new version, the 3 Amigos still keeps