Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
he/him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, Meet at TestBash
Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community.
Achievements
Interests
advocacy
all-things-community
asking-questions
bug
bugs
bugs-in-the-wild
charters
coaching
coaching-testers
community
conferences
conference-speaking
continuous-learning
design
diversity
drumming
events
experimentation
exploratory-testing
heuristics
leadership
memes
mentoring
mot-stec
music
oracles
podcasting
process-improvement
product-development
product-management
public-speaking
quality-strategy
space-duck
space-seagull
systems-thinking
team-enablement
testbash
testbash-brighton
testing
writing
Contributions
A quality chapter is a component of an agile product development model.First coined in "Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guild" by Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson.A chapter is a collection of people who share similar skills. So, a quality chapter is a collection of people who share skills in all things quality. Each chapter meets regularly to discuss its area of expertise and its specific challenges. A quality chapter is essential for ensuring that quality professionals, though working in different squads, can share ideas and knowledge.Other chapters could exist, e.g. front-end chapter or mobile-app chapter.
"I don't know what the answers are but what I do know is that community always has them should we choose to explore." – Rosie Sherry during a
Searching for "BCS" in my photo app, I stumbled across this.
What a blast from the past. I got ISEB certified (now ISTQB) in 2004.
How times have changed!
I took this photo on the final evening of TestBash 2024 in Brighton, UK. It was just before I joined everyone at the social event. The light on the pier and sea was stunning!
I was utterly exha...
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