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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.
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We are incredibly excited to welcome Nancy Kelln to MoTaCon!Nancy has spent years rescuing chaotic, politically tangled implementations, and she’s identified a 'hidden' set of superpowers that qual...
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🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
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🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
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🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
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Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD) - How to make LLM-assisted changes governable, reviewable, and reusable
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10 AI Agent Configuration Principles
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Three principles for AI Agent Configuration
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Three principles for AI Agent Configuration
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Three principles for AI Agent Configuration
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MoT London
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London Chapter April gathering
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Performance reviews are like marmite Ep 98
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How to test a stage 99 times over - Ep 99
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Tired of ISTQB? Take the STEC path! Ep 102
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TWiQ: Testing in production - EP 107
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Quality revelations: From SLO to better listening - Ep 108
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Curiosity killed the chat - Ep 109
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TWIQ or treat: Ghostly bug stories - Ep 110
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Quality feedback over testing artefacts - Ep 111
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Why shoot for gold when bronze is good enough! - Ep 113
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The mobile testing paradox - Ep 114
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Quality Coaching: Fizzy minds and quality problems - Ep 115
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What is TYiQ? Wrong answers only – Ep 117 (End-of-year special)
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What is the AI–quality–human loop? - Ep 118
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Goals that inspire a quality community - Ep 119
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Quality narratives and the circles of consequence - Ep 121
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Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120
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New chapter for chapters: Why in-person community events still matter - Ep 122
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The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123
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Rainbow vomits and AI Guardrails - Ep 124
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Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125
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Quality moments and delicate developer dialogues - Ep 127
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It depends - Ask MoTaverse Anything - Ep 128
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Joy Scrolling - Ep 129
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SQEC ready. Pair ready. Glossary ready - Ep 130
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MoTaCon 24/7/404 - Ep 131
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You're absolutely right! I have a love hate relationship with AI - Ep 132
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Three principles for AI Agent Configuration
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Three principles for AI Agent Configuration
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We're a match because we both wore the same MoTaverse caps during a Call for Insights recording! 🤩
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 Context Engineering comes with paradoxes and hard choices. This small byte talks about them and why it matters.
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Context Engineering - What & Why?
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