Good relationships with colleagues in different specialties and different teams are a key to learning and succeeding. I was lucky to start my software career in an organization where we collaborated and learned from each other. Despite my shy nature, I intuitively forged relationships with people outside my team as well as within it. For […]
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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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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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Wow, this is my fourth blog post sharing some of my biggest takeaways from Agile Testing Days, yay me. Some of my most inspiring and actionable ones are from Lisi Hocke’s talk, “Growing an Experiment-Driven Quality Culture”. Follow that link to see her slide deck. Often a slide deck is not much use without the […]
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Pick up any article or watch any talk on a testing-related topic these days, and you’re bound to see the terms “shift left” and “shift right”. They’re almost a cliché. What do they really mean? Modern software development isn’t supposed to be linear anymore, right? There’s not one point where it starts and another point […]
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I attended DeliveryConf 2020 in Seattle in January. I had high expectations, given the speaker lineup. It far exceeded my expectations! I took lots of sketch notes and plan to blog more about the many insights I learned. Meanwhile, you can see the presentations, AND listen to the valuable facilitated group discussions with members of […]
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