Podcast Episodes

Porridge caring: Finding joy in a shifting industry - Ep 140 image
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  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Chris Pratt's profile
  • Eamon Droko's profile
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  • Heleen Van Grootven's profile
A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.
Future platforming conversations, right here, right now - TWIQ Ep 139 image
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  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
Live experimentation, technical glitches, and community challenges along the way
TWiQ, camera, action: Vibe mapping high value activities - TWIQ Ep 138 image
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  • Preeti Gupta's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
This Week in Quality enters a new, cameras-on format
Hot, flaky, and unfinished - Testing, accessibility, and the grief we don't talk about - Ep 137 image
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  • Oleksandr Romanov's profile
  • Clare Norman's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
Judy and Clare trade spicy hot takes, from notification overload and 'done > perfect' learning, to a passionate deep dive on accessibility as a moral (and business) imperative.
How clean code led to continuous cleaning - Ep 136 image
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  • Nadja Schulz's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
  • Rolf Kunisch's profile
Clean code, messy legacy, and good products. Demi, Simon, Rolf, Nadja and the TWiQ crew get into it all.
Quality thinking and the role of epistemology - Ep 135 image
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  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Shawn Vernier's profile
An exploration of how epistemology underpins quality thinking, helping quality people examine what they know, how they know it, and how that shapes their quality choices.
Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134 image
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  • Melissa Fisher's profile
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  • Nadja Schulz's profile
  • Ibekwe Victor's profile
A reflective “wins” episode that turns everyday progress into momentum, and reminds us to log the good stuff, not just the problems.
I was absolutely right! But no one listened - Ep 133 image
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  • Oleksandr Romanov's profile
  • Melissa Fisher's profile
  • Ben Dowen's profile
  • Ibekwe Victor's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
A lively chat about influence without authority, from asking better questions and telling clearer risk stories to navigating stakeholders, careers, and community visibility.
You're absolutely right! I have a love hate relationship with AI - Ep 132 image
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  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Oleksandr Romanov's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Clare Norman's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
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.
MoTaCon 24/7/404 - Ep 131 image
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  • Diana Dromey's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Nadja Schulz's profile
  • Ruslan Strazhnyk's profile
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  • Andreas Zehnpfund 's profile
A chaotic-but-fun start with 'Diana 404' turns into a big community update: SQEC milestones, the MoTaCon lineup reveal, and why MoT Pro membership is the simplest way to be part of it all.
SQEC ready. Pair ready. Glossary ready - Ep 130 image
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  • Nadja Schulz's profile
  • Nataliia Burmei's profile
  • Heleen Van Grootven's profile
  • Shawn Vernier's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
With SQEC now fully live, the community swaps stories about new roles, flaky tests, accessibility audits, and why shared language, pairing, and “being the duck” can make quality work easier.
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