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Category: Leadership

  • Mentoring & Coaching – Finding your outer Miyagi

    Introduction In Part1 here I talked about mentoring. I talked about the fact that it is a function primarily based on building lasting relationships. In this post I’ll talk about quality coaching. What I think good looks like, the structure of a coaching session and round it off with a look at the differences and…

  • Mentoring & Coaching – Finding your inner Miyagi

    Introduction The line between mentor and coach has always seemed a bit blurry to me.You will mentor because you have life experience that you can pay forward.I would class this as life-coaching without the extraneous ‘right-on’ baggage.It may not actually matter to you that there’s a difference. Truth-be-told, it’s never bothered me but it’s been…

  • Building a QA team – Part 3

    This is part 3 of the ‘Building a QA team’ series. In this series, I’ve explained what I’ve learnt in the creation of a great team, I’ve also explained the methods I’ve used to create the initial team using a set of shared values. In this final part, I expand on the methods I use…

  • Building a QA team – Part 2

    Introduction In the first part here, I defined the problem to be solved, clarified what I mean by a team and identified the characteristics of individuals I look for in forming a QA team. I also identified the characteristics of what I consider to be a good team lead. In this part I’ll outline how…

  • Building a QA team – Part 1

    “Building a team that communicates freely and openly towards a common goal in the pursuit of a quality deliverable will always outperform a collection of disparate individuals with their own agendas.” Introduction A team is the beating heart of any software development process. People develop software. Those people have differing roles. Those people have differing…

  • 21st Century Soft Skills – QA Edition – Part 2 – Redux

    Introduction This is part 2 of of the soft skills I think enhances by a modern tester continuing on from part 1 here What are soft skills? According to Wikipedia, they are traits, qualities, behaviours and more that basically make you who you are. According to Collins, they are desirable qualities for certain employment that…