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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model — Lisa Crispin | Call for Insights
AI amplifies the good and the bad, so where should your team start?
From Java Dev to DevRel: What Does a Twenty-Five-Year Career Actually Teach You? | Into the MoTaverse
Principal Developer Advocate Adriana Vilela joins Rosie Sherry to explore tech careers, observability, OpenTelemetry, AI slop in open source, and why quality is still a very human job.
Quality tooling silos — Rosie Sherry | Insight
The tool that makes your testing easier might be the same one cutting you off from the team that builds the product.
Don't worry about motivation: grow with “MoTivation” — Judy Mosley | Article
What if showing up was enough, because the rest is already built for you?
We still need humans to speak with — Lisa Crispin | Call for Insights
Why does mentorship work best human to human, even in an age of AI?
Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141 | TWiQ
A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.
Chaos with a purpose: practising resilience through a contrived API — Adam Davis | Moment
Decrypt the Narrative is a deliberately contrived API testing challenge designed to simulate the kind of behaviour you only really encounter once systems start misbehaving in production.
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- How I built a PR dashboard that flags risky pull requests — Justin Holsgrove
- Turning an Audience into a Display — Adam Davis
- Workshop Design for Motacon — Drew Pontikis
- Ramping Up to Modern Performance - Key takeaways — Megan Ozanne
- The Questions the Community Taught Me to Ask — Ujjwal Kumar Singh
- 2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩 — Simon Tomes
- Claude as my constant companion — Rosie Sherry
- Cool new artwork for the Leeds Chapter — Ady Stokes
- I've Configured Things You Wouldn't Believe — Louise Woodhams
- Here's why I recommend Judy Mosley — Simon Tomes
- Ten10 and The Scale Factory merge to form Scale Factory, a UK AI enablement consultancy
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- Roundtable: AI Learnings and Demos — 6th July
- Influence, from the other side of the table — Sept 10th
- Test data driven development — 23rd Sept
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leaders Dinner, London — 28th Sept
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Leaders Dinner, Brighton — 30th Sept
- MoTaCon 2026: 257 people already registered. Let's go!
- MoTography at your service — October 1st
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
MoT Chapter events:
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