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Former chef turned software testing expert Kat Obring brings 20 years of experience from Disney, Anaplan, and Accenture. She offers quality leadership coaching and training courses.
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I noticed Kat Obring talking about the lack of leadership roles. I love to see it. It's a big reason why we have our Leading with Quality conversations, event and community efforts around it.
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Quality Leadership Roles — what's the real story?
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I noticed Kat Obring talking about the lack of leadership roles. I love to see it. It's a big reason why we have our Leading with Quality conversations, event and community efforts around it.
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Learn how to influence, advocate, and create change when you’re struggling to get buy-in
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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The golden age of quality is here. Plus, highlights of the previous week in the MoTaverse.
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This badge is awarded to members who share their insights on Leading with Quality.
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Kat Obring: Scaling change, one iteration at a time
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Learn how to influence, advocate, and create change when you’re struggling to get buy-in
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This badge is awarded to members who confirm their tickets to TestBash Brighton 2025
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Post TestBash Meetup at Ohso Social
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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You've heard the cliché, it's not what you know, it's who you know. When people see you as a leader and look to you for answers, you can't know everything. Invest time in building relationships not...
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Thanks for accepting the "Share one leadership idea that you practice" challenge. Grateful for your post: Leadership isn’t about having the smartest answers.
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Leadership isn’t about having the smartest answers.
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When you shift from “Here’s what I think we should do” to “What would change if we understood why this keeps happening?”, you stop being the tester with opinions and start being the person who unlo...
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Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Was a professional member in 2025
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12 things we learned when we questioned the existence of test case management
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Is the future of test case management at risk? Let's go exploring.
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Your memory was featured on the homepage of the MoTaverse.
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Thanks for accepting my community challenge 😊
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How to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach
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At the Leeds Testing Atelier I spoke about how we, as testers, can go from being gatekeepers to being quality coaches. One of the practical suggestions was to facilitate a test planning workshop wi...
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23 language shifts every quality engineer can adopt today
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Cosmic conversation: the possibilities of Quality Coaching
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Continuous Quality - The Testing Planet News - Episode 07
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Debugging the Mind: Teaching Developers to Think Like Testers
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The Hobbit's Guide to Testing Tools - Small Steps to a Powerful Choice
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 28
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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That just-finished-a-talk feeling
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From Gatekeepers to Quality Coaches
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The metrics we suffer
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The final social meetup after TestBash
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Snapped just after Kat Obring finished her talk at Leeds Testing Atelier, one of the most packed sessions of the day, with people standing at the back to hear her speak.
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Kat Obring’s talk at Leeds Testing Atelier explored how QA roles can evolve from blockers at the end of a pipeline to enablers of quality throughout it.
Kat shared practical ways testers can shi...
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Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of metrics, they suffer from the wrong ones.
I’ve seen dashboards full of numbers that no one looks at, and reports that generate more questions than clarity....
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Greenfield project
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I live here now.
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A computer, and through it's screen we see a bug on a sofa, comfy with a drink in it's hand.
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I asked the bug what it was doing there.
It said "I live here now".
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Tech Debt
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The words we use every day matter, let's tweak them!
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