Simon Tomes | Activities
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Creating moments
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Creating moments
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Creating moments
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Great session by Barry where he talks about the QE chaos when an organisation decides to shift to QE functions but misses to shift the quality system
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Quality Function Vs Quality System - How QE Create Chaos?
awarded Preeti Gupta for:
Quality Function Vs Quality System - How QE Create Chaos?
awarded Barry Ehigiator for:
Quality Function Vs Quality System - How QE Create Chaos?
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I really enjoyed this talk by Stu Day where he shared that great ideas don’t always start with answers—they often start with a good story, a conversation, or just trying something out. In his sessi...
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What's your key point to start the work?
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What's your key point to start the work?
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What's your key point to start the work?
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"Good luck working on these, Neil.
Barry will be an excellent accountability buddy."
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During the talk by Jesper Ottosan during Leading With Quality we were given the task or completing sheet entited "What is next for the experienced quality roles". The idea was to fill out the...
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Planning Ahead - Leading with Quality
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Planning Ahead - Leading with Quality
awarded Barry Ehigiator for:
Planning Ahead - Leading with Quality
awarded Jesper Ottosen for:
Planning Ahead - Leading with Quality
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The very first talk at Leading With Quality Today was an interactive session where Stu Day talked about Storytelling and Bringing quality to live. I really enjoyed his session and the various...
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Building to Tell a Story
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Building to Tell a Story
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Building to Tell a Story
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"Great to see you, Vishakha. 🤩"
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Lovely meeting you both today
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Lovely meeting you both again and again and again
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Lovely meeting you both again and again and again
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Lovely meeting you both again and again and again
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Leading with Quality helped me reflect on my current role within my organisation, especially whilst listening to the excellent talk from Jesper Ottosan (https://www.ministryoftesting.com/p/jesper)&...
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Learning about our next steps as an experienced quality person
awarded Neil Taylor for:
Learning about our next steps as an experienced quality person
awarded Jesper Ottosen for:
Learning about our next steps as an experienced quality person
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"Brilliant bunch of people on this table! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩"
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Lots of learning and insights at leading with quality event where we got lots of different perspective how we indulge with quality in day to day life
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Lots of Learning at Leading with quality at Brighton
awarded Preeti Gupta for:
Lots of Learning at Leading with quality at Brighton
awarded Barry Ehigiator for:
Lots of Learning at Leading with quality at Brighton
awarded Jesper Ottosen for:
Lots of Learning at Leading with quality at Brighton
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Lots of Learning at Leading with quality at Brighton
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The “Storytelling: Bringing quality to life” workshop was itself a live demonstration of the concept it explained.Stu delivered a great workshop. The interactivity, the way he presented, that was s...
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Working on my storytelling
awarded Frederick Vandenbosch for:
Working on my storytelling
awarded Stu Day for:
Working on my storytelling
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"Brilliant description. 😃"
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"What an excellent bunch of people to participate with throughout the day. Nice one, Vishakha."
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Lovely meeting you all :)
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Amazing group, great discussion
awarded Vishakha Raut for:
Amazing group, great discussion
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We started the day with using stories to bring quality to life and we ended the day looking at ethics in testing with stops for maturity models and QE transformation to name just a few Fantast...
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Thank you Leading with Quality what a fab day
awarded Helen Whitaker for:
Thank you Leading with Quality what a fab day
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"Glad you were part of the day, Dalbir. Thanks for getting stuck in."
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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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. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
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