Moments
The really difficult challenge I've had is moving from being close to Quality Engineers and all the relationships across the piece, to ma...
I often have a serious face. These days I put it down to an autistic thing. Typically it's when my mind is elsewhere, thinking hard, I fr...
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When I first read Susanne's abstract for her talk, "Can we actually co-own quality?", my answer to that question was "well, of course!" I...
Being a professional member in the MoTaverse gave me the opportunity to become Chapter Lead for MoT Berlin and find my voice in the commu...
Over the years, I've realised that one of the most rewarding parts of my career isn't just improving quality, it's helping people grow.Be...
Collections are a big one for me. Being able to organise content and access it quickly was a game changer when it was introduced. It is g...
Continuing with an experiment. Let's look at the talk and workshop descriptions of MoTaCon 2026 and share my thoughts and reflections bef...
I wasn't sure what to expect from the MoTaCon craft table, but it was a hit!Drop a comment with the names of people in this video. :)
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Ask Me Anything
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Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Simon Tomes asked "While the recipe instructions and ingre...
Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Gary Hawkes asked "How do the teams responsibilities in a ...
Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.I believe open source offers some of the best learning oppor...
Inspired by my manager who explained I 'monkey-barred' to a new job (before I was a tester I was a baker) and couldn't really transfer a ...
Chapters
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Being a professional member in the MoTaverse gave me the opportunity to become Chapter Lead for MoT Berlin and find my voice in the commu...
An experimental evening turned into a discussion on how to be a new tester. Managing scripts and what might be next. Of course as Ady was...
Having never done an unscripted Summer Social is this the etiquette for them???
On my way
MoTaCon
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2 October 2025, 09:26.The MoTaverse team take on all sorts of roles during the MoTaCon event days. During MoTaCon 2025 I was responsible ...
When I first read Susanne's abstract for her talk, "Can we actually co-own quality?", my answer to that question was "well, of course!" I...
Continuing with an experiment. Let's look at the talk and workshop descriptions of MoTaCon 2026 and share my thoughts and reflections bef...
Continuing with an experiment. Let's look at the talk and workshop descriptions of MoTaCon 2026 and share my thoughts and reflections bef...
Call for Insights
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7 Months ago today I wrote a moment about my goals for 2026 (My goals for 2026 | MoTaverse). In this post I wanted to provide an update a...
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A f...
2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩2009 me would have no idea that he'd record a conversation with...
You've just said goodbye to one of your favourite testing legends off the back of wonderful and insightful Call for Insights. You've...
MoTivation
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"Showing up is what leads to learning and personal growth."I like that line in the weekly community stars digest email, not because I wro...
Inspired by this post in the Engineering Management Chapter Slack channel, we're writing a book of our own! The EM Chapter is trying to p...
It is bug-congrats me as I'm absolutely flabbergasted that not only have I passed four thousand stars, I caught it on 4004 (lots of stars...
A moment of speaking for the first time at OSSA moment of hosting the first MOT MasterclassA moment of uploading my first YouTube videoA ...
Guardians of the MoTaverse
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Luna - our white Lion from Sirius, protector of the realm.Munja (eng. Flash) - our Black Lightning, a shadow hunter.
Link was chosen by the Goddesses of Quality Assurance to guard the realm from the Great Calamity (otherwise known as "Deadlines"). H...
After the loss our last Guardian Cooper, we had a break as a point of respect and reflection on such a wonderful and dare I say unique do...
Meet Percy. We are looking after him for the day.
Memes
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Recently my team has taken on the arduous task of migrating one of our oldest applciations from weblogic to containers. A task that is pr...
Writing Automation has made me realise after 10 plus years I am actually a good tester.I am however possibly the worst developer known to...
It's nice when people notice!
We do try to be subtle...(Sometimes it actually wasn't in dev yet!)
