In this episode, we talk about observability from a performance engineering perspective. We talk about how this new emphasis on observability is a game changer for performance engineering, typically once viewed as a solo activity, but not something that benefits the whole team. Some good quotes: "the whole, the whole rationale for investing in observability practices, changing your language, changing your approach is to affect the future" "Information is no good if it's just between you...

In this episode, Abby talks about Site Reliability Engineering, Service Level Objectives, Toil, the power of Storytelling, influencing Management and why Quality Coaching and Site Reliability Engineering have a lot in common.

In this episode, we talk about large projects, how to explain our job to non-technical people within an organisation and creating a shared vision of success to enrich the UAT process. We also talk about Mentoring, Enthusiasm, Empathy and Community.

In this episode we talk a lot about learning, different approaches to learning, being a catalyst within an organisation and sitting with discomfort. Some classic Maaret quotes: "Automation is how we document Exploratory Testing" "FAIL -> First Attempt at Learning" "Accepting the discomfort of not knowing is a skill" Next episode completes the discussion. Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a feedback fairy with a day job at Vaisala, where she works as Principal Test Engineer. She identifies as...

We continue our conversation with Beth Skurrie co-founder of pactflow.io and all round awesome person. We continue talking about PACT applied, making conscious decisions around tool selection and keeping tech relevant. Some 'more' Bethesque quotes "end to end test are the wrong type of tests to check low level, request and response fields" "what it does is it gives us the right tool at the right level to test the right thing" "It's not dictator driven contracts" it's not a tool is good...

In this episode we talk to Beth Skurrie co-founder of pactflow.io and all round awesome person. We talk about quality (of course!) and what quality is from a coding perspective. The difficulty in using tools to assist in quality. Levels of abstraction and the test automation pyramid and how its useful in trade offs. Plus some stuff on when to write tests. "These days, responsiveness is kind of a quality in itself" "The tools are very good at identifying things, but you use the tool, the...

In this episode, Tim talks about how collaboration, visualisation and metrics in an open organisation can help teams to achieve exceptional business outcomes. We also discuss plumbers.

This is the final part of a three part chat (for the moment) with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about what's next for agile teams and testing and the importance of taking small steps. We also mention not being taken in by smoke and mirrors, resilience, observability and complexity.

This is the second part of a three part chat with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about remote working and coaching remotely, consulting vs coaching, finding a Purpose, Pomodoro and taking small steps when in unchartered waters. Plus, more about donkeys.

This is the first part of a three part chat with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about the similarities between quality coaching and whole-team quality and we also talk about Elephants and Donkeys!

In this episode we speak to Tim O'Brien from Wargaming Sydney. Heard of the game "War of Tanks"? It was brought to you by these lovely folks. I wanted to chat with Tim to give us an understanding how quality coaching fits into this unique context. We talk metrics (in particular rework), we talk about the key to being influential. Also how teams can own the testing strategy.

Joao talks about being a Quality Owner, how it came about, how he uses Riskstorming and the fact that change takes time. The youtube presentation he references is found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlygHJIFjTA

In this special International Women's Day Episode, we chat with Venus Nautiyal who works for Amaysim. Venus and I chat about a range of stuff including Microservices, Bounded Context and autonomy in tool selection. Being involved early in Product Ideation and how they customised the Atlassian Quality Assistance Model to suit their context. Venus blogs at https://medium.com/@venus.nautiyal

Anne-Marie Charrett speaks to Ali Hill on Quality Coaching security controls on an AWS Infrastructure. They chat BDD, TDD, Collaboration and the power of small experiments. In this chat we mention Ali's talk at Agile Automation days. You can watch it here https://youtu.be/oamcCqz_eOQ

Areti talks about working in a centralised quality coaching team that supports multiple Dev teams, challenges for QA in moving to more frequent deployments, being a Time Blocker to enable teams to think about their problems and potential solutions and empowering teams to become autonomous. Fun fact: This podcast took a while to record due to a misbehaving coffee machine and some poorly-timed phone calls!

In Episode 3 of the Quality Coach Roadshow journeys to Sydney, Australia where Sahar Khoshraveshan, Quality Coach at Atlassian speak to us about the importance of unlearning, fast feedback and speaking to product to help improve quality. Fun Fact: This was intended to be the first episode, but we need prior approval from Atlassian to thats why its the third.

This is the second episode of two podcasts where Mags Dineen, founder of 3WestStreet, interviews Rob Meaney, Head of Quality Engineering at Poppulo. Among many things, Rob talks about defining outcomes, creating a common vision through company-wide metrics, optimising for learning, learning from industries outside of technology, the power of having skin in the game and lots more "abilities".

In this episode, the second part of our chat with Rob Meaney, we talk about the challenges of quality coaching and creating a common vision.

In this the first episode of the podcast, we talk to Rob Meaney, Quality Coach at Poppulo. In it, Rob talks about his career and using his experiences to help him grow.

This is the first episode of a two podcasts where Mags Dineen, founder of 3WestStreet, interviews Rob Meaney, Head of Quality Engineering at Poppulo. Among many things, Rob talks about the importance of testability, operability and relationship building.