Quare MeetCast: Recent Episodes
Adam Matlacz
Quare MeetCast is Meetup and Podcast about Testing, Quality, Agile and Software Development.
Our mission is to spread top notch ideas among the software development community. You can join and actively participate in the online meeting or listen to the podcast afterwards.
To participate in the live recording, join Meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/Quare-MeetCast/
If you want to support the development of the MeetCast and community (or just have a guaranteed spot on the meetup😉), you can do it here https://www.patreon.com/quare_dev
This is another topic that touches on a very important issue. Each of my guests mentioned diversity, so it's to talk about diversity's influence on our work. For years IT was dominated by men, but this trend is changing. In tasks where the main requirement is your creativity, technical skills, and ability to cooperate - your gender, skin color, or disability do not matter. On the contrary - creating a diverse environment might positively impact your work. Let us see how we can improve our work by bringing to a table our differences!
Materials mentioned during the MeetCast: http://www.humanisticmanagement.org/ https://powercoders.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless http://danne.stayskal.com/books/
Together with Fran O'Hara and Arkadiusz Benedykt, we will talk about how implementation issues with agile can hurt the quality. What are the common mistakes that are made during the implementation of Scrum? What is the core of the Agile manifesto, and which part is often forgotten? We answer this and many more question in the 9th episode of Quare.dev MeetCast.
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Together with Fiona Charles and James Christie, we will talk about the issues around ethics in software development. Do we try to answer questions like why should we care about ethics? What can we do about it? And most important - what could possibly go wrong?
People mentioned in the podcast by James: Been Kim - https://beenkim.github.io/ Lisanne Bainbridge - Ironies of Automation
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This was the last MeetCast this year! And to finish with a bang, I had a pleasure to host testing experts from two different timezones!
Exploratory Testing Reclaimed!
Together with Maaret Pyhäjärvi and Anne-Marie Charrett, we asked ourselves questions about what are exploratory tests? How to do them better? And how to teach others the art of exploration?
This and much more you will find in this episode!
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This was our sixth Quare MeetCast! And this time, we hosted two seasoned managers.
Meeting topic: Estimations. One of the most controversial topics in software development. Some can't imagine doing any project without it; others claim that they are a complete waste of time. We will talk about why do we need estimates? How to use them in projects? Can we live without them? This and many more questions will be tackled during our sixth Quare MeetCast.
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We are getting some traction now! This was our fifth Quare MeetCast!
This time I had a privilege to host another testing gurus. Together with Isabel Evans and Sue Atkins I talked about the importance of test design techniques and how they have used them in practice over the years.
Recomended books: The Art of Software Testing - Glenford J. Myers, Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Software Testing Standards Practitioners Guide - Stuart Reid If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?: Embedded Debugging Methods Revealed: Technical Mysteries for Engineers - Lisa K. Simone
Thanks to our sponsor - the QA Craft for Jira
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For the first MeetCast after summer vacation I have something special - whole panel of experts!
On our fourth meeting, we will have a small crowd – cross-functional dream team. Together with Rik Marselis, Berend van Veenendaal, Dennis Geurts and Wouter Ruigrok, we will talk about the content of their book: Quality for DevOps teams
This book was written by a core team of authors that worked together as a cross-functional team with all relevant skills brought together. Rik Marselis is a principal quality consultant with a broad experience in quality engineering and testing. Dennis Geurts is a systems architect who has supported many teams in delivering systems that fit the stakeholders needs. Berend van Veenendaal is an expert backend developer with a strong drive to build it right the first time, thus deliver quality. Wouter Ruigrok is an Agile quality coach who has worked together with many teams in multiple organizations to achieve the best possible business value for their clients.
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On our third meeting, we will host Beren Van Daele! Together, we will tackle the following topic: Creating a Quality Strategy
Short introduction from Beren: 'Quality is a team responsibility', it's been repeated time and time. Yet, as a Product Owner, I spend way too much time talking about 'Functionality'. Sure, there's the occasional acceptance criteria that describe some rudimentary performance criteria or a security-related story in my backlog. In this meetup, I'd love to demonstrate a technique called RiskStorming and discuss with you what we can do in our respective roles to improve quality overall... more importantly, do this in a methodical and strategic way.
Link to Riskstorming online (there is a free version you can try out): https://riskstormingonline.com/
Recomended book: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
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On the second meeting, I hosted Phil Royston and Jorgen Lund! Together, we tackled the following topic: Developing great teams and great testers.
List of recomended books: The One Minute Manager - Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D., Spencer Johnson M.D. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders - L. David Marquet Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Patrick Lencioni
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On the first Quare.dev MeetCast, I hosted two of the testing legends - Michael Bolton and James Bach! Together, we tackled the following topic: Ideas about Experiential Testing.
List of recomended books: - Tacit and Explicit Knowledge - Harry Collins - Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott - Tempo : Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making - Venkatesh Guru Rao - An Introduction to General Systems Thinking - Gerald Weinberg - Blog: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/ - Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing - Gerald Weinberg - Lessons Learned in Software Testing - Bret Pettichord, Cem Kaner, James Marcus Bach - The Shape of Actions - H. M. Collins, Martin Kusch - The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science - Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch - The golem at large : what you should know about technology - H. M. Collins - Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing - Elisabeth Hendrickson
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