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

Sep 30, 2025

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)

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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Rosie Sherry

Rahul, the person who completes a mindmap before a session is even done. Awesome to have this summary!

September 30th

Nicola Sedgwick

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