Charles Penn | Activities
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Call for Insights turns 45
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Call for Insights turns 45
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On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
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AI isn't going to save your dysfunctional engineering team... it's going to expose its problems.With everyone rushing to hand their engineers AI agents almost no one is stopping to ask whether thei...
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AI Adoption readiness framework for development teams
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AI Adoption readiness framework for development teams
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What if strategic thinking is mostly subtraction?
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Make room to think, or stay reactive
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Make room to think, or stay reactive
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Make room to think, or stay reactive
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Make room to think, or stay reactive
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A one-word shift that opens up quality thinking
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Start with and
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Start with and
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Identify the subtle signs of "implementation-driven design" and discover practical strategies for testers and tech leads to actively defend and restore user-centric product intent.
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A tester's guide to preventing implementation details from becoming the product
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A tester's guide to preventing implementation details from becoming the product
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How do you know if an AI testing tool is worth it?
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A Guide to Creating an AI Toolkit
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A Guide to Creating an AI Toolkit
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Is it time to reframe negative testing?
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The positive impact of negative tests
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The positive impact of negative tests
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The positive impact of negative tests
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Could borrowing a concept from cognitive science change the way we think about quality engineering?
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A case for bottom-up quality
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A case for bottom-up quality
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Every question you ask during testing is the seed of the next one.
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The Learning Lollipop Model
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The Learning Lollipop Model
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The Learning Lollipop Model
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The Learning Lollipop Model
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The Learning Lollipop Model
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The Learning Lollipop Model
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This badge is awarded to members who give 10 or more “Thanks” on content across the MoTaverse.
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Learning shows up everywhere. Participating in the MoTaverse takes many forms, from reading an insight, watching a talk, picking up a lesson in a course and much more.
The catch. Starting, and sh...
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The ITC Model: Three ways to learn, and why balancing them matters
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The ITC Model: Three ways to learn, and why balancing them matters
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Test Complete Overview
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Leading quality in a large team
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Are conversations the key to QA-developer relationships?
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Conversational QA: From me to we
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Conversational QA: From me to we
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Conversational QA: From me to we
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Roundtable: Exploring Quality with Templates and Charters
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A virtual roundtable discussion focused on templates and charters
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Read Melissa Fisher's blog post: My rubber duck buddy — LLM use case - accelerate your thinkingShe uses Co-pilot to get her thinking in order before landing on a test strategy. Very nice indeed!&nb...
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Are you LLM rubber ducking?
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Are you LLM rubber ducking?
Charles Penn
Senior Test Engineer
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Software tester in the Midwest of the US.
Typically happy to discuss testing of any sort, geeky things, and parenting.
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