Strategic Friction are the intentional bottlenecks we design into our process specifically where risk lives: Architecture Guardrails: If AI can spin up a microservice in minutes, we need senior-led standards that ensure it doesn’t become a distributed nightmare. Deep-Dive Peer Reviews: Shifting the focus from “Does this look right?” to “How does this break the system?” Automated Risk Gates: Designing smarter CI/CD checks that trigger deeper scrutiny when AI-generated boilerplate touches critical paths like security or payments.

Loved recording the 404 talk for the SQEC Certification module on Monitorability, Observability, Testability. It was great to think about how these often forgotten areas of quality can be so impact...

Collection of Stuart Thomas 404 talks on What is Quality Engineering?

I'm going to be speaking at LDX3 in June! This wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for Ash Winter, Diana Dromey, Melissa Fisher, Scout Burghardt, Simon Tomes and really MoT as a whole! Before I t...

I've just reviewed lesson 2 on module 3 of the Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC). Really enjoyed hearing from Nataliia Burmei and Stuart Thomas as they explore how quality enginee...