Simon Tomes | Activities
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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It takes a village to raise quality.
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Follow your favourite brands in the MoTaverse
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Follow your favourite brands in the MoTaverse
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Thanks for amplifying MoT! 🙌🏻
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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AI's impact on quality generalists vs quality specialists
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How to be a community conduit
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How to be a community conduit
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Hiring managers might not understand the true value of community participation
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How to be a community conduit
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How to be a community conduit
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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The dev conference search is on
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Maithilee connects gardening with testing and quality and it's great!
How about you, what analogies or non-testing examples do you use to describe testing and quality?
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Maithilee connects gardening with testing and quality and it's great!
How about you, what analogies or non-testing examples do you use to describe testing and quality?
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What does this mean when it comes to measuring our work?
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Our impact, as quality professionals, shows up in other people's work
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Our impact, as quality professionals, shows up in other people's work
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Great to chat with you on a Call for Insights. Thanks for exploring ideas together. I look forward to our next discussion.
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Support without pressure
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The impact of AI on job security
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OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates
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How to be a community conduit
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The dev conference search is on
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The dev conference search is on
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Clare Norman shares a goal: Bring quality coaching to at least one developer conference.
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Clare Norman shares a goal: Bring quality coaching to at least one developer conference.
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I moticed something recently...partly in myself, but also in the many quality conversations I've had with others.
This shift to quality engineering is MoTivating! People are re-inpsired, perhaps...
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I moticed something recently...
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I moticed something recently...
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Unpack the pivotal role of soft skills in testing
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Ask Me Anything - Soft Skills
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Ask Me Anything - Soft Skills
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Ask Me Anything - Soft Skills
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Ask Me Anything - Soft Skills
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Spotted in the wild! It was on a soundproof box, but the less noise the better when testing sometimes!
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Quiet! Testing in Progress
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Quiet! Testing in Progress
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Many thanks for going pro again. We're super grateful for your commitment to learning and growth. 🤩
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RISK ASSESSMENT REPORT Moltbook Platform & Moltbot Ecosystem
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
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We have been collecting data from Moltbook
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Moltbook Observatory
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.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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