Clare Norman
Senior quality coach
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Passionate about making software better for humans. Fascinated by the psychology behind user interactions. On a mission to sprinkle more joy into our software.

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Who are we really talking to? Do we need a MoTaverse collective?

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Master the art of quality coaching by learning how to facilitate activation sessions that empower developers to own automation and identify wobbly code
Is AI the best friend quality professionals have been looking for? image
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Clare Norman and I explored what AI means for us quality professionals. Can't wait to see the outcome of what Clare reveals at the end!
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I have itchy feet. That’s not a medical condition, it’s an idiom for describing how one might feel if they’ve been in the same place for too long. It conveys a strong almost restless desire to leav...
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Honest, helpful and insightful reflections from Clare Norman.
Who are we really talking to? Do we need a MoTaverse collective? image
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Had an awesome call with Clare Norman, during which she shared a powerful reflection: Are we sharing our testing insights with the right audiences? Perhaps we need to make formal cohorts of qual...
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All things on working with our fellow humans
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A fizzy mind is when your thoughts bubble and spark like your favourite carbonated drink. You may feel that you are overflowing with energy and imagination. It often happens in the midst of lively conversation with peers, where each person’s perspective collides with another, igniting fresh insights. One idea fizzes into the next, cascading into a chain reaction of creativity until your mind feels carbonated, sparkling and joyfully alive with possibility.
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Develop the mindset and practical coaching techniques that help teams build shared responsibility for continuous quality
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Discover how Quality Coaching approaches help teams surface, understand and solve their quality problems
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This debate explored the role of quality coaching, how it differs from quality engineering and where it is most effective
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My goal as a quality coach is to be the person who is the cause of good testing and quality practices in my team without doing much of the testing by myself. So I work as an embedded tester in a team where I try to advocate for early and continuous testing.
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Clare Norman joined us at ReTestBash UK 2022 for a live Q&A session after her talk Quality Coaching: Level 1​​​​​​​ and we had some very interesting questions and answers.
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