Ady Stokes | Activities
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Comparing resources whilst designing our Motacon Engineering Management workshop
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Workshop Design for Motacon
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Workshop Design for Motacon
awarded Neil Younger for:
Workshop Design for Motacon
awarded Drew Pontikis for:
Workshop Design for Motacon
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Workshop Design for Motacon
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During stand ups we have a PR dashboard which is a list of open PRs, who is assigned and whether it is in a state of approval or not, as well as listing a bunch of draft PRs no one really cares abo...
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How I built a PR dashboard that flags risky pull requests
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How I built a PR dashboard that flags risky pull requests
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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 bakery, align with a quality engineering team?". Immediately...
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AMA Answer: How do the teams responsibilities in a bakery, align with a quality engineering team?
awarded Demi Van Malcot for:
AMA Answer: How do the teams responsibilities in a bakery, align with a quality engineering team?
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AMA Answer: How do the teams responsibilities in a bakery, align with a quality engineering team?
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A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.
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Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141
awarded Demi Van Malcot for:
Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141
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Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141
awarded Oleksandr Romanov for:
Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141
awarded Simon Tomes for:
Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141
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Can MoTaCon be part of the MoTaverse Festival? 🤔We currently have the following satellite events happening during MoTaCon week:
28 Sep - Leaders Dinner - London Edition: thanks to TestMu AI ...
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Is MoTaCon secretly a festival now?
awarded Diana Dromey for:
Is MoTaCon secretly a festival now?
awarded Bug of the MoTaverse for:
Is MoTaCon secretly a festival now?
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1.4.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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3.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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1.4.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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2.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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3.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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1.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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2.6.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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9.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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9.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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9.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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8.8.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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8.6.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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This Week in Quality
Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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MoT Ambassador. Currently semi-retired and freelancing. I am, amongst other things, a writer, speaker, and accessibility advocate. Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator and article editor for MoT and WonderProxy. Testing wisdom, friendly, testing songs and poems. Great minds think differently. STEC and SQEC Certified.
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