Reflecting upon the National Software Testing Conference, despite the emphasis the tech world has on AI right now, it is still all about your people and processes if you want to deliver with quality.
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2025 Reflections
From a professional viewpoint, it has been an interesting and largely enjoyable year – despite a huge setback. I’ve done quite a lot of cool things: I’ve also been able to start a few interesting things: With that in mind, I have to feel like it has been a good year. That said, ultimately I’m […]
This year I started doing my first 1:1s with colleagues, aside from those with my manager/leader. It was a really interesting experience and I wanted to reflect on it a little. Getting going It was actually something that was on my agenda for a while but struggled to get permission / buy in to do […]
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Challenging our thinking with CBT
Quite a few years ago I was going through a tough time and was referred to “Cognitive Behaviour Therapy” (CBT). Whilst it wasn’t what I needed at the time, it was useful for helping me correct some of my negative behaviours or reactions. Recently when working my way through MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC), […]
I recently reflected upon my failings as a Quality Coach but that wasn’t to say that I failed. Far from it. I am very proud of my work as a Quality Coach and it is a role that I hope to pick up again. Initiatives Analytics As a group we had never really looked at […]
I enjoyed my time as a Quality Coach, working with between one and three teams at a time. I think it was a relatively successful stint. However I want to acknowledge some of the areas where I struggled. Role Definition As a role, quality coaching is definitely very different to anything that I’ve done before […]
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2024: Glad That’s Over
It has been a trying year, both personally and professionally. However before I flesh that out, I thought I’d try and articulate everything that has happened for me within the world of testing & quality: Big Fat Failure In my annual review I was quite scathing of myself. I failed the teams We started a […]
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Success & Grief
I know this isn’t related to testing or quality but I wanted to air it as it does affect my interactions with people and the community. It has been a year since my wife passed away unexpectedly. Unsurprisingly it was a difficult year and I’ve really struggled. At the same time I’ve had what many […]
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2023 – A Reflection
It has been some year. I started in a dark place with lots of change underway. However it is, professionally speaking, been a bit of an immense year. Speaking Building upon my first time speaking at a testing conference in 2022, I’ve been fairly active. From running a threat modelling workshop for a small set […]
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2021 – A year in review
I believe this is a fairly common thing to do and hopefully useful for myself. Lets have a look back at the bizarre year that was 2021. Key events: Officially became an employee of Motorola Solutions, following a takeover last year. Moved to a new office, which I visited a handful of times. Started a […]