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Published 4 Mar 2026
Duration: 00:40:28
Leadership in software development is shifting towards cultivating collaborative cultures, systems thinking, and shared responsibility for quality.
In this episode of Engineering Quality, were joined by two influential voices in the quality community: Anne-Marie Charrett, author of The Quality Coa...
The podcast examines the transformation of quality leadership in software development, moving from rigid, process-driven models to approaches centered on fostering collaboration, inclusive culture, and systems thinking. It emphasizes the role of mentorship, community involvement, and diverse career pathways in shaping effective testing practices, while highlighting how quality leadership extends beyond traditional testing roles to encompass shared responsibility across teams. The discussion explores the impact of quality coaches, who promote collective ownership of quality through education, facilitation, and cross-functional teamwork, contrasting this with more siloed, technical testing roles.
Key challenges addressed include leading quality initiatives without formal authority, such as overcoming resistance to change, aligning stakeholders, and implementing incremental behavioral shifts through workshops. The conversation also underscores the importance of tailoring communication strategies to different audiences, ensuring tangible outcomes for visibility, and creating environments where quality is a collaborative effort rather than a top-down directive. These insights reflect a broader shift toward embedding quality as an integral, team-driven aspect of software development.
22 Apr 2026 18: Not Accessible = Not Ready
Recommended: Accessibility is something to remember.
Accessible digital design demands embedding inclusivity as a core value, prioritizing manual testing with real users, overcoming organizational and cultural barriers, and fostering leadership commitment to ensure proactive compliance and user-centered solutions over overhyped AI tools, addressing both ethical and economic imperatives.
8 Apr 2026 17: Quality Isnt A Testing Problem, Its a Culture Problem
The text discusses strategies for cultivating quality culture in software development through observation, retrospectives, and the QPAM model, highlighting collaboration between developers and testers, addressing challenges like adversarial dynamics and silos, and emphasizing inclusive practices, shared quality definitions, and adaptive leadership to empower testers and ensure organizational accountability.
24 Mar 2026 16: Busy Isnt Productive: Staying Focused in Tech
Redefining productivity as intentional focus on meaningful tasks rather than busyness, the text addresses distractions like communication tools and meetings, emphasizing prioritization, time-blocking, boundary-setting, avoiding multitasking, leveraging task management tools, time audits, and personalizing strategies to align daily efforts with long-term goals through intentional planning and protected focused time.
18 Feb 2026 14: Navigating the Tech Job Market with Ali Feldman
The tech job market is being disrupted by AI-generated resumes and coding tools, forcing recruiters to adapt and candidates to showcase authenticity and experience in a shifting landscape.
4 Feb 2026 13: Aligning Agile and Quality with Shaquanna Brown
Agile practices improve software quality and team collaboration by emphasizing feedback, defined working agreements, and embedding quality in the development process.