Simon Tomes | Activities
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What to do when someone leaves your team
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Throwback Wednesday: Life moves fast and slow when you support MoTaCon
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Throwback Wednesday: Life moves fast and slow when you support MoTaCon
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Throwback Wednesday: Life moves fast and slow when you support MoTaCon
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What to do when someone leaves your team
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What to do when someone leaves your team
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What to do when someone leaves your team
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What to do when someone leaves your team
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What to do when someone leaves your team
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Build team resilience as colleagues leave and your team's knowledge changes shape
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Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager
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The Archaeologist and the Witness
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Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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Beads: A Git-Friendly Issue Tracker for AI Coding Agents
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Are you using AI? Do not forget your whip
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Explore how AI can support your decisions, research, and communication as an engineering manager, without replacing human connection
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Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager
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Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager
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Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager
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Explore how AI can support your decisions, research, and communication as an engineering manager, without replacing human connection
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Great to talk with you on a Leading with Engineering Management episode. Thanks for sharing so much advice. 🤩
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Are you using AI? Do not forget your whip
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The search for the lost code, best chair and the magic of MoTaCon
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I often have a serious face. These days I put it down to an autistic thing. Typically it's when my mind is elsewhere, thinking hard, I frown 'n' what not.Often, my girl asks me if I'm ok. Checking ...
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Grumpy Office: This is my happy face
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Are you using AI? Do not forget your whip
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Human skills matter more in the age of AI noise
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Human skills matter more in the age of AI noise
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Over the years, I've realised that one of the most rewarding parts of my career isn't just improving quality, it's helping people grow.Being able to post jobs is another way to make a real differe...
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Being a professional member in the MoTaverse gave me the opportunity to become Chapter Lead for MoT Berlin and find my voice in the community. While it is a lot of work to organize Chapter events,...
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Pranav Pandit's talk 'Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation', for quite a while the message of pushing automation as something that will fix our problems ...
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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