Gary Hawkes | Comments

Fascinating chat, you hit so much on navigating management psychology. You should talk more....and sing 😁

This...is...GOLD! Thanks so much for writing this comprehensive article. The good thing I can see is that we're are moving in the right direction in this model, as we're working in stage 3 right now. Moving between the stages can be a volatile in/out shuffle as you start to look at the next stage, do small experiments and fail, learn and go again. Keeping this article in a safe place as I'll be referring to it. 🙏

Love the word, but I won't use it in front of you in case I mispronounce it and say something else by accident! 😂 I hate to enflame the stereotype of testers, but I do have a gift at noticing spelling mistakes fairly instantly usually relating to journalism, window signs, menus etc. and I will rudely interrupt anyone thats speaking to me to flag it 😬. I'm always exploratory testing and looking for patterns of behaviour. Proud to be beroepsmisvorming!

The title certainly got my attention! 😂

Thank you both Adam and Judy, really appreciate it. 🙏

Great article Stuart. 👏 Keeping this as a reference as I'm in the process of influencing a project team to consider observability as part of their ideation and story definition

Good to read this. I've spent the last ten years taking care of others, so I do knowingly neglect myself. Making this list is something I can do gradually, not to just pat myself on the back - but to help make me more self aware. That should help me move forward with a bit more clarity 🙏

Really enjoyed the session, thank you both so much. I was an automated tester many years ago using the commercial tools. A combination of moving into a management roles and automation tech moving on meant I kind of lost my confidence getting back into it. This has at least shed a light that with AI, I could get myself back in the automation game.

Totally agree. I build teams on soft skills first, role skills second treating each person as an individual, embracing the differences we have. Thats the core of where teams connect, help each other and thrive. One might almost say, communities are built on soft skills.

Loved this Dara, thanks for sharing. We don't work that much with Feature Flags, but we've talked about it so this is really valuable insight. 🙏

As you coach engineers through with quality assistance model, are there any milestones you need to hit to raise the bar on the wider team taking more responsibility for quality?