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I may be on annual leave after travelling warp factor 5 to the planet rock and back again 🎸🤘, but sitting on the train is the perfect time to catch up with that backlog of bookmarked MoT articles a...
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Gabrijela facilitates the open space session at the Munich meetup.
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Holi is an indian festival that is about colors, energy, positivity and victory of goodness over evil.
Wishing the MoTaverse a happy holi and vibrant year ahead :)
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"100% support. I haven't even completed my first year but I've been able to extend my membership by contributing articles, course content etc. That's an easy sell to bosses, as long as we put the work in. Professional membership has changed me for the ..."
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We're tweaking our Professional Membership Model
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Creating new layers of care for Professional Membership
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"Brilliant article. Over the years, my QA team had reduced from 13 to 4. We have had to react and do things differently as the luxury of lots of dedicated resources has gone. This is an inspiring article that will help me tackle that, so I've saved it. ..."
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Transform your team’s approach to quality from a late-stage gatekeeper process into a proactive, shared responsibility that identifies risks early.
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Delivering quality and deploying on time when your team is small
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I heard this on a recent Call for Insights (with Simon Tomes and Louise Woodhams), and it made me chuckle.
It's in reference to making attempts to shifting-left, but not really feeling the resul...
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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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Transition from reactive quality assurance to proactive quality engineering by embedding shared responsibility throughout the entire development lifecycle
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What is software quality?
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What is software quality?
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99 Second Talks – Day 1 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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Thanks for putting this together in an online form. Our teams are remote and scattered so it was good to see how it could work. 🙏
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RiskStorming: Artificial Intelligence
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Stop selling gold when all you've got to offer is a process
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Welcome to Mount Stupid or The Illusion of Expertise
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What I actually do when I walk into a team with no QA at all
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What do ducks, toilet seats, and eggs have in common?
This Week in Quality, apparently.
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Happy to share 900+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
Special thanks to Ministry of Testing, Rosie Sherry and Simon Tomes , Sarah Deery for the constant inspiration and support 🙌
Gary Hawkes
Head of Engineering
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Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering. Recently promoted to Head of Engineering (Jul 2026).
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