Gary Hawkes | Activities
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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There’s a new AMA in town, and we’d love you to take part.An Ask Me Anything (AMA) is a simple way to put yourself out there on a topic you care about. You pick the topic, invite questions, and do ...
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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The Quality Cost of the AI Vampire
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I have always been hearing about the power of communities and have been part of few before but MoT is different in many aspects. I first came to know about MoT in September 2024 when I booked my se...
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A year ago - Journey through Motaverse - Those 5 months in Motaverse!!
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A year ago - Journey through Motaverse - Those 5 months in Motaverse!!
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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My Collection #5
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Collection of content related to Peerscon
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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All the talks at Peerscon 2026 were fabulous and I have scattered notes from each talk that I need to dissect and move forward with. However, I thought I'd share a very unique talk from Ester ...
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"Interestingly, we have a Quality Gate but its not really a gate that we police. Its in essence a 15 minute prod deployment review to make sure everyone is happy from their perspectives before we ship it. So at the very least it needs a rebrand.
However..."
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Sometimes all the stars align and you demo goes off without any issues.Last sprint I did a demo of the entire flow through new applications and talked for 20 minutes and nothing went wrong!Do share...
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Demi's Demo Luck
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Demi's Demo Luck
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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This Week in Quality
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Brag Board Template (How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible)
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Loved having a chat with Jesse. We talked about our work and he gave me a very powerful story about his role and the work he did to be present in understanding the product and how its used, rather ...
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Loved having a chat with Jesse. We talked about our work and he gave me a very powerful story about his role and the work he did to be present in understanding the product and how its used, rather ...
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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As I walked into the Trent Conference Centre, Emily O'Connor leapt off her seat and greeted me like an old friend with a big hug. I really appreciated that and it gave me a beaming smile as I navig...
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As I walked into the Trent Conference Centre, Emily O'Connor leapt off her seat and greeted me like an old friend with a big hug. I really appreciated that and it gave me a beaming smile as I navig...
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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MoTacon Singers
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Outdoor gym, test passed.
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I took my girls down to the park. They did a bit roller skating at the skatepark whilst I hung out at the outdoor gym.I thought I'd riff following on from Gary's post on an outdoor gym failing test...
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Outdoor gym, test passed.
Gary Hawkes
Head of Engineering
He/Him
Head of Engineering who came from QE. Admirer of all humans (with a special affinity for testers). I love to bring out the best in people and help them grow. I have a very tactical view of delivery and love working to find the sweet spot so that processes are a balance between effort and value. Music nut.
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