Most talks about quality don’t make it into developer conferences. This one did.
Most talks about quality don’t make it into developer conferences. This one did.
LDX3 received over 1,000 talk proposals.
Mine was one of the few chosen to tackle quality leadership not architecture, not incident response, but the messy, often-overlooked foundations of building software that lasts.
I knew the audience would be tough:
• Staff+ engineers
• Heads of engineering
• Technical leads with little time and big responsibilities
So I treated the talk like a leadership pitch:
No testing jargon. No fluff. Just the business case for quality.
That meant:
• Stats from recent industry reports
• Cases from companies which failed (e.g. Sonos) and companies which lead with quality (e.g. Spotify)
• A toolkit any leader can use to start shifting culture today
Because here’s the truth:
• Most leaders already feel when something’s off.
• But to act on it, they need the right framing especially when explaining it upward.
I created the Quality Leadership Toolkit to help leader start to have better conversations, questions and decisions earlier. I’ll keep building it, with the help of the teams, testers, and leaders who know how much this work matters.
Let’s fix quality leadership, together.
