10+1 commandments for ethical techies - listed at the bottom of the post, also

New-to-me ideas from Targeting Quality 2022!

I just got back from Targeting Quality 2022, a lovely conference put on by KWSQA in Cambridge, Ontario. This was a great opportunity for me, because the early bird ticket was affordable, and I can drive there! Yes, it takes eight hours, and across the border. I’m from the West, so that’s no distance at […]

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Upcoming online events

A couple of webinars coming up next week! I’m doing a webinar with Jenna Charlton on how teams can use visual models to create an effective automation strategy on September 22 with Functionize, it’s free, please join us! Janet Gregory and I are doing an Ask Us Anything with the Test Chat community on September […]

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Lisa by beach

Ready to work with you!

Welcome to my revamped website! I’ve enjoyed a lovely summer, I’m rested and ready to help teams identify and achieve their quality goals. Let me bring my experience helping teams delight customers with frequent, low-risk delivery of high-quality software products to your organization. I can guide your teams to figure out their biggest obstacles and […]

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Donkey looking down a track through a field

I’m independent!

For the past couple decades, I’ve enjoyed working as a hands-on tester and internal test consultant at several different companies. I was lucky to be a part of some teams who achieved a high level of product quality, team performance, and joy. Whatever the outcome – I always learned a lot! At the same time, […]

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FrontMatter podcast

Lots of new blogs, podcasts, videos to share!

Hi friends! I haven’t posted here for a long while, because I’ve spent my time co-writing blog posts with Janet Gregory on our Agile Testing Fellowship blog. We also write our monthly newsletter with exclusive content, please subscribe if you haven’t already! Most excitingly, Janet and I record monthly 15 minute video chats on our […]

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Shifting left and right in the continuous DevOps loop

Testing & quality in continuous delivery, DevOps, observability & more

I used to curate a site where I gathered articles, books, webinars, courses and more related to testing and quality in continuous delivery and DevOps, especially observability. That site was owned by my then-employer, and nobody is keeping it updated anymore. It might go away, so, as a public service, I am posting the resources […]

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