Notes: Embedding a Culture of Quality using the Quality Radar by Speaker: Nicola Sedgwick

Sep 30, 2025

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Speaker: Nicola 
Sedgwick
	Head of Agile Coaching
The Origin Story
	What does good look like?
		Ugly or beautiful?
		Slow or fast?
		Feature rich?
		Well factored?
		Tested?
		Duplicate free?
		Edge cases covered?
	How do we know we're achieving it?
		Tooling
		Practices
		Processes
		Quality Habits
Quality Attributes
	Internal
		Aspects that you can see in the "code"
		Eg:
			Code Reviews
			Alerts
			Unit Tests
			Spikes
	External
		Aspects that the "user" can see
		Eg:
			Contract Tests
			A/B Tests
			Pipeline Tests
			System Tours
Tradeoffs:
Internal vs External
Quality
	Compromising "External Quality" attributes can speed up time to market
	Compromising "Internal Quality" attributes can slow down productivity.
Quality Radar Elements
	Scripted
		CI/CD
		Accessibility Audits
		Static Code Analytics
		TDD
	Observable
		Observability
		Metrics / Dashboards
		Monitoring
	Collaborative
		Mob Testing
		BDD
		Code Reviews
	Exploratory
		User Research
		Exploratory Testing
		Penetration Testing
	Note:
		You can't improve what you can't see
		Each of the "elements" of the quality radar require deep thinking
		Our field is filled with "Buzz" words & Jargons
		Quality Elements (Brainstorming)
In this memory: Nicola Sedgwick

Embedding a Culture of Quality using the Quality Radar

Note:
You can't improve what you can't see
Each of the "elements" of the quality radar requires deep thinking
Our field is filled with "Buzz" words & Jargons

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Rahul Parwal is a Test Specialist with expertise in testing, automation, and AI in testing. He’s an award-winning tester, and international speaker. Want to know more, Check out testingtitbits.com
Rosie Sherry
Rahul, the person who completes a mindmap before a session is even done. Awesome to have this summary!

Nicola Sedgwick
This is awesome!

Jesse Berkeley
I was blown away while sat next to him doing this in the LWQ session, he's got some skills indeed! Think i might need some training as well :-D

Rahul Parwal
Ha ha, I can do a note taking workshop someday.

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