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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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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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And you're absolutely right! I have a love hate relationship with AI
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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This episode fired me up with the AI debate. I still believe that today, that our systems thinking has never been more important. I was thinking about this over the weekend.From early on in my Test...
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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"I think Quality Management Systems (QMS) don't get enough attention. So this practical workshop by Melissa is very much welcome. She's also just a good human with tonnes of knowledge and experience to share. I always like how Melissa has this excellent..."
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Get ready for an interactive workshop, led by the one and only Melissa Fisher 🙌Melissa is an Ambassador of the MoTaverse and a Quality and Test Leader, specialising in owning and delivering end to ...
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🖖 Build your own Quality Management System
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🖖 Build your own Quality Management System
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🖖 Build your own Quality Management System
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Member joined TWiQ — This Week in Quality chapter
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Trust me, I'm an AI output
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Write about something that worries you
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Write about something that worries you
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Write about something that worries you
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Not too much. Not too little. Just the right amount of chaos. Pretty please!I just re-connected with Amy Phillips, a long-time friend, whose current role is a Senior Engineering Manager. This was ...
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The goldilocks of chaos
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The goldilocks of chaos
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The goldilocks of chaos
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Things to write about in the MoTaverse
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Need inspiration on what to write about in the MoTaverse? A growing collection of prompts and examples to get you started.
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Write about something that worries you
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A pessimist, optimist and realist continue their previous discussion about writing. Last time around they were talking about writing about something they're enjoying.Pessimist: I'm much more comfor...
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"Looking forward to this from Pranav. Defo check out his Call for Insights to hear the handy lessons he has to share. You can find it on his profile page."
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We are honoured to have Pranav Pandit join us this year in Brighton, all the way from San Francisco!Pranav will be on the main stage with a talk, where he'll share lessons from scaling a large mobi...
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🖖 Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation
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🖖 Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation
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🖖 Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation
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"I'm a big fan of Richard Adams. He's done so much and continues to do good things for our craft. 🤩"
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We're very happy to have Richard Adams joining us in Brighton once again, for a fantastic workshop about RCA (Root Cause Analysis)!RCA is a powerful, yet underused, tool to help us build better qua...
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🖖 Beyond the exception with Root Cause Analysis
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🖖 Beyond the exception with Root Cause Analysis
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🖖 Beyond the exception with Root Cause Analysis
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One of the biggest motivations for me with the MoTaverse is simply to make an excuse to meet, catch up, geek out and make friends.I connected with Susanne Abdelrahman via the MoTaverse. Then along ...
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It's uncomfortable staying quiet
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It's uncomfortable staying quiet
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It's uncomfortable staying quiet
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Thanks for your ideas around previous chapter events and displaying chapters that folks belong to on their profile page.
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My love-hate relationship with AI - Ep 132
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My love-hate relationship with AI - Ep 132
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A hot-takes episode where the crew debates AI skepticism, manual testing’s staying power, whether AI agents really speed delivery, and why quality ultimately lives (or dies) with leadership decisions.
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During episode 132 we discussed hot takes. One that came up is that testers love the moment they can say "I told you so", but then feel guilty about it.I would like to argue that that is because te...
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