How can we know that the products we're building are going to make a positive impact on the world? Could it be that it's only good for people like us, but does harm to others? What can we as individuals do to improve the products we're building?

In this season finale episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Catherine Flick, a Professor of Ethics and Games Technology at Staffordshire University. Tune in to learn some fascinating research and stories about ethics, tech, and... video games. 

Find Catherine on:

• Her website: https://liedra.net/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-flick/

Mentions and resources:

• The exercise of the Black Mirror Writer's Room by Casey Fiesler: https://cfiesler.medium.com/the-black-mirror-writers-room-teaching-technology-ethics-through-speculation-f1a9e2deccf4
• ACM's Code of Ethics: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics 

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Have you ever heard of W. Edwards Deming? What about... the Toyota way? Lean? DevOps?

John Willis is one of the pioneers of the DevOps movement, and, has recently released a book "Deming's Journey to the Profound Knowledge". In this latest episode of Quality Bits you'll hear more about this book, and the ideas of Deming that we can still learn so much from when wanting to build high-quality products and teams.

Find John on:

• His website: http://www.johnwillis.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwillisatlanta/

Mentions and resources:

• Article "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 
• Books 📚 :
  • "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future" by John Willis
  • "The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations" by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
  • "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" by  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford 
  • "Toyota Kata" by Mike Rother
  • "The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition" by Steven J. Spear
  • "Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification" by Gene Kim, Steven J. Spear
  • "Out of the Crisis" by W. Edwards Deming
  • "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education" by W. Edwards Deming
  • "Thinking in Systems" by Donella H. Meadows 

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Imagine the world with no sight. No hearing. No mobility. It's hard to comprehend how to navigate the world then. It's a reality for more people than we imagine. It also may have been or might be yours - there as well may be situational or temporary times in your life when you need a more accessible world. 

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to an accessibility consultant Azra Tayyebi. Tune in to learn more about accessibility, its misconceptions, where we all can improve, and how we can create not only more inclusive products but society overall.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azra-tayyebi-5494b227b/

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What does it mean to be a "team glue"? Why does it matter? Why QA should be positioned as a tech leadership role?

Tune in the latest episode with the inspiring Vernon Richards to get the answers to these questions and so much more.

Find Vernon on:

• His website: https://www.vernonrichards.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vernonrichards/
• X:  https://twitter.com/TesterFromLeic

Mentions and resources:

• Tanya Reilly on Team Glue: https://noidea.dog/glue 
• A conversation with Kanika Selvan (could not find yet her talk Pet to Threat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0LY5iOZN14 
• On brag documents: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ 
• Diary of the CEO podcast with Adam Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPXjt6beYbg

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Learning is essential, but... It's easy to fall into a learning fatigue. It can feel like one more thing in our already overflowing to-do list. To make matters more challenging, the number of online resources to learn from is growing daily.

Marie Cruz is a Senior Developer Advocate: her job is to learn and share what she has learned. In this episode, Lina talks to Marie about creating the habit of continuous learning in this busy world. You'll get a chance to learn from some of the best Marie's tips and resources on approaching your learning journeys better. 

Find Marie on:

• Her website: https://www.testingwithmarie.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariedesireecruz/
• X: https://twitter.com/mcruzdrake

Mentions and resources:

• Adobo and Avocados live stream Marie does with Nicole (our previous guest, too, check out listening recommendations below): https://www.youtube.com/@adoboandavocados
• Test Automation University: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/
• Ministry of Testing 30 days challenges: 
  • 30 Days of Testing
  • 30 Days of Accessibility Testing
• Books 📚:
  • "Atomic Habits" by James Clear
  • "The Compound Effect" by Darren Hardy
  • "Mindset" by Carol S. Dweck

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If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy these past episode of Quality Bits:
Learning Culture, Collaboration, and Experiments with Andrei Bechet https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/14182594

Performance Testing with Nicole van der Hoeven
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/13909242

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Automated E2E (end-to-end) tests frequently are the first thing companies introduce trying to reduce the efforts of manual testing: "There's this big manual testing regression suite, so why don't we automate it? Right? ... Right?"

Well, Bas Dijkstra thinks otherwise. In this episode, we'll talk about automating the right things instead, and, why E2E tests are not always the best idea. You'll hear about test models, test ownership, and where to start when you want to learn more about automation in a bit less common way than most of testing courses recommend.

Find Bas on:

• His website: https://www.ontestautomation.com/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basdijkstra/ 

Mentions and resources:

• Bas' article "Breaking down your E2E tests - an example": https://www.ontestautomation.com/breaking-down-your-e2e-tests-an-example/
• Other recommendations by Bas:
  • Article "Proving E2E Tests are a Scam" by Elliot Murray: https://elliottmurray.medium.com/proving-e2e-tests-are-a-scam-21d39e88913
  • How to grow in automation:
    • Bas' learning path suggestion: https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resources/test-automation/a-test-automation-learning-path/
    • "Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap" by Blake Norrish: https://medium.com/slalom-build/quality-engineer-learning-roadmap-fddfcb77409e

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More and more software delivery teams embrace the whole team quality approach. Where does testing fit into that? Modern testing principles are there to help to understand what the industry is moving towards.

In this episode, Lina talks to Alan Page - one of the creators of modern testing principles. He's an avid blogger who has quite a few opinions on better software delivery. Tune into this episode to learn more about how modern testing principles can help to embrace the whole team quality approach, and more.

Find Alan on:

• His website: https://angryweasel.com/blog/
• Substack: https://substack.com/@angryweasel
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-l-a-n/

Mentions and resources:

• Modern Testing: https://www.moderntesting.org/ 
• Alan's article "Don't blame me": https://angryweasel.substack.com/p/dont-blame-me
• Books 📚 
  • • "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig
    • "Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops" by Nicole Forsgren et al
    • "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries
    • "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" by John Willis

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Ever been in a situation where you're trying to make a point to someone and as much as you try to phrase it differently, it just does not go through? On the other side, have you ever had someone approach you and despite you first having the opposing point of view, they quickly convince you otherwise? Those are the persuasion skills in action. 

After hearing Thomas Shipley's talk on persuasion, Lina talks to him about it in this episode. Tune in to learn more about 3 Ps of persuasion, in which situations you could benefit from those skills, and why it matters overall. 

Find Thomas on:

• His website: https://tomdriven.dev/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshipley/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomdrivendev

Mentions and resources:

• Thomas` talk on persuasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFOIzzwMSi4 
• Books
  • • "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson
    • "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It" by Chris Voss
    • "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman

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As of February, 2024, English is the most popular language for web content. The world is not only people who speak English, though. If we do not make the content and products in other languages, how can people even know that it exists and benefit from it?

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Chen Hui Jing, a front-end developer passionate about internationalization. Tune in to learn how internationalization differs from localization, why it matters, what fairly low effort things we can do to build more inclusive and diverse products and web, and more.

Find Hui Jing on:

• Her website: https://chenhuijing.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huijingchen/
• Mastodon: https://tech.lgbt/@huijing

Mentions and resources:

• W3C: https://www.w3.org/
• W3C GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/
• The Type podcast on Chinese typography (in Chinese): https://www.thetype.com/

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Generic Design for Diverse Environments with Joe Cooper
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/13802413

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What is DevOps? Is it just continuous releases and speed? How do we test in teams embracing DevOps?

Jani Haapala is a DevOps Architect with a Quality Consultant title. In this episode, Lina talks to Jani about that fluffy word of "DevOps", the misconceptions about it, and testing in DevOps. You'll learn more about the concept, get some stories on what good quality there looks like, and gather further resources to deepen your knowledge.

Find Jani on:

• LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/janihaapala/

Mentions and resources:

• Dan Ashby's "Continuous Testing in DevOps" article: https://danashby.co.uk/2016/10/19/continuous-testing-in-devops/
• Goldratt's Theory of Constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
• DevOps website: https://devops.com/
• The New Stack: https://thenewstack.io/
• Books 📚:
  • Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, John Allspaw  "The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations"
  • Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win"
  • Eliyahu M Goldratt, Jeff Cox "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement"

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If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Cloud, Infrastructure as Code and Testing IaC with Daniel Mohacsi
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/11743019

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Does a separate QA department help or hurdle the company's road towards quality? What about people having titles with "quality" in it: does it aid to drive change in the company or the opposite? Can there be a high-quality product without dedicated testers?

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to the author of "Explore it!" Elisabeth Hendrickson. They debunk many myths of what a high-quality product development and testing actually is. Tune in to hear more about why testers may be on a verge of a role revolution, the power of a whole team testing approach, and so much more.

Find Elisabeth on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/testobsessed/
• Curious Duck website: https://curiousduck.io/ 
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@testobsessed@ruby.social

Mentions and resources:

• Books 📚:
  • Elisabeth Hendrickson "Explore it!"
• Elisabeth's article "Better Testing, Worse Quality": https://web.archive.org/web/20220417112509/https://testobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/btwq.pdf

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Removing QA Column, Driving Change and Nurturing Fun in Teams with Finn Lorbeer
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/11462360 

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In this episode of the Quality Bits podcast, Lina  interviews Andrei Bechet, a Senior Software Engineer at Personio. You will learn about  experiments, driving change, and the power of learning cultures with Andrei.

You'll also hear why chasing titles isn't the key to career growth - and what to do instead. Tune in to learn the secrets of collaboration, self-reflection, and finding the right mentors for your journey.

Find Andrei on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreibechet/

Mentions and resources:

• Simon Sinek's podcast: https://simonsinek.com/podcast/
• Steve Upton's talk on Experiments at TestCon 2023: https://youtu.be/fl2USB1LUDQ?feature=shared
• SoCraTes: https://www.socrates-conference.de/home 
• Books 📚:
  • Simon Sinek "Start With Why"
  • Daniel Pink "Drive" 
  • Daniel Kahneman "Thinking, Fast and Slow" 

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Quality, Cynefin and bugs with Steve Upton https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/11248422

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Antonela Mandic is a psychologist who has been working in tech as well as a team coach. In this episode of Quality Bits, Antonela not only shares the parallels between pscyhology and some tech concepts like agile, but also opens up about burnout she has gone through herself.

Tune in to hear more about:

• What burnout is
• The road to recovery
• Steps you can take to prevent it
• ... and so much more :)

Find Antonela on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonelamm/

Mentions and resources:

• FRIED - the burnout podcast: https://www.friedtheburnoutpodcast.com/

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Performance testing for many people in tech is a daunting task: there's an overwhelming amount of tools, frameworks, or even different types of performance testing. Where can we start? Is it all about faster applications? Are there ever cases where speed takes a back seat?

This episode's guest Nicole van der Hoeven is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs. With over 10 years of experience in software development and a focus on performance testing, Nicole has plenty of full of learnings stories to share about performance testing (and not only). In this episode, you'll learn more about performance testing, learn about some resources worth checking out, and get a reminder on why any type of testing is all about... empathy.

Find Nicole on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvanderhoeven/
• Website: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nicolevdh

Mentions and resources:

• Obsidian note taking tool: https://obsidian.md
• Google Page Speed Insights: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about
• On backend performance testing including SEARS parts: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Backend+performance+testing 
• Pareto principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
• Book recommendations 📚:
  • Steve Souders "High-Performance Web Sites": https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/high-performance-web/9780596529307/ 
  • Steve Souders"Even Faster Web Sites": https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/even-faster-web/9780596803773/
  • Google's Site Reliability book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/site-reliability-engineering/9781491929117/ 

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Observability, Monitoring, and Platform Engineering with Abigail Bangser https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/12664243

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In the light of Movember (a movement that aims to raise awareness about men's health, including mental health and suicide prevention) and international men's day (did you know about that?), this is a special, vulnerable, and essential episode about men's mental health.

In this episode, Lina talks to Shey Crompton - a Senior Quality Manager at easyJet and the managing director of the St. Neots Man Cave in the UK - a men's mental health charity. Lina and Shey explore the concept of Movember, the societal expectations placed on men, and much more. Tune in to learn more about the importance of breaking down the stigma surrounding men's mental health, how to recognize when someone is struggling with their mental health and how to be a better ally.

Find Shey on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheycrompton/

Mentions and resources:

• Movember: https://movember.com
• Organizations to check out:
  • St. Neots Man Cave: https://stneotsmancave.org.uk
  • UK Men's Sheds: https://menssheds.org.uk
  • Boys Get Sad Too: https://boysgetsadtoo.com/
  • Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk 
  • Walk & Talk 4 Men: https://walkandtalk4men.com 
  • Andy's Man Club: https://andysmanclub.co.uk
  • For men to talk: https://formentotalk.co.uk
• Deft university study: https://aclanthology.org/W15-2607.pdf 
• Sophie Küster's talk "You don't talk about that at work!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxIuyb7jknc
• Book recommendations 📚:
  • "It's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies): Inspirational people open up about their mental healthIt's Not OK to Feel Blue (and other lies): Inspirational people open up about their mental health" curated by Scarlett Curtis (Lina mentions it as "it's ok not to be ok", but she meant this one :))
  • "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma" by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
  • ""No Offence, But...": How to have difficult conversations for meaningful change" by Gina Martin

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DHIS2 is an open-source health system used in many countries. It's known for it's generic architecture and high customisability. How do you have a generic design for diverse environments and build a product that  helps save lives?

This episode's guest Joe Cooper is a designer working there for more than 7 years. We discuss the challenges of designing what actually matters, user satisfaction and user involvement, and humbling moments of realizing that our assumptions are wrong. As Joe notes in the episode: "I'm proud of not letting a design ego override important decisions. Sometimes that results in screenshots that are not as good for the portfolio. <..> The users don't need things that look better in my portfolio."

Find Joe on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-cooper-28667340/
• Website: https://joe-cooper.com/ 

Mentions and resources:

• DHIS2: https://dhis2.org/about/

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
UX Research with Greta Ruskiene https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/12766870

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Do you think of money when you talk about quality? Is money vs. quality the same as speed vs. quality? How can we leverage the knowledge about money matters when talking about product quality?

This episode's guest Valentin Ranshakov, a QA expert at SAP Signavio, shares many interesting ideas about money and quality trade-offs, including when it does not make sense to concentrate on money.

Find Valentin on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valenso/

Mentions and resources:

• Lina's article "How to get that bug fixed": https://qualitybits.tech/writing/how-to-get-that-bug-fixed

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Perceived Quality & Trade-offs between Product and Engineering with Alaa Sarhan https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/11347563

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Laid off? Or know someone who was? How do you navigate it or help someone navigate it?

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to April Johnson, a change manager who recently experienced a layoff. April shares her experience and offers advice for others going through a similar situation. You'll learn about the importance of reaching out to your network, the power of community, taking care of yourself, and being open to new opportunities.

Find April on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apriljohnson/

Mentions and resources:

• April's article on layoffs: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-get-decide-change-even-were-forced-april-johnson
• Women Go Tech program in Lithuania: https://womengotech.com/
• Book: Orville Pierson - "The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World's Leading Career Services Company: The Proven Program Use"

If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits:
Finding Your WHY with Dr. Rochelle Carr
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/13436222

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APIs - what are they? What should we keep in mind when testing an API? What are the benefits of API testing over UI testing?

This episode's guest is Callum Akehurtst-Ryan, a principal test engineer at Chetwood Finance, who is on a mission to educate more testers (and not only) about APIs and their testing. Not only you're going to learn what APIs are, how to test them, or where to start, but also hear Lina and Callum discuss the terms technical vs. non-technical. If API testing sounds like a challenge, then this episode will help you by simplifying sometimes overcomplicated terms and leaving you inspired to learn more.

Find Callum on:

• LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/cakehurstryan
• Callum's website: https://cakehurstryan.com/

Mentions and resources:

• Callum's article "A Beginners Guide to API Testing": https://cakehurstryan.com/2023/07/26/a-beginners-guide-to-api-testing/
• Postman: https://www.postman.com/
• Postman's courses on API testing: https://academy.postman.com/page/course-catalog
• Swagger: https://swagger.io/

If you liked this episode and would like to dig deeper into a type of API testing - contract testing that Callum mentions, check out this past episode of Quality Bits:
Contract Testing with Lewis Prescott
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/12402778

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Do you remember your childhood dreams? What did you want to be when you grew up? How did you imagine your life?

Dr. Rochelle Carr is a coach and speaker on a mission to shift people's lives and encourage them to rediscover their why: the guiding light purpose which sparks joy in whatever we do. In this episode, Lina talks to Dr. Rochelle about finding your why, escaping society's "mold" on who we should be, drafting an "exit plan," and learning from failures.

Find Dr. Rochelle on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrochellecarr/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/drrochellecarr 
• Path to Empowerement website: https://pfempowerment.com/ 

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What makes an effective 1-on-1? What are the key aspects of valuable 1-on-1s? Is there a difference between a leader and a manager? Why does the language we use matter?

Tune in to this episode to learn more from Farai Madzima. Farai is a people leader who challenges our misconceptions about 1-on-1s and shares valuable tips on making these meetings much more helpful. In addition, during the conversation, Lina used the word "superior" instead of "supervisor" or "manager," and that sparked some interesting discussions on the significance of the language and different cultures people come from.

Find Farai on:

• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/farai/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/heyfarai
• Farai's website: https://faraimadzima.com/ 

Mentions and resources:

• Farai's newsletter: https://www.heyfarai.com/newsletter/
• Farai's article on 1-on-1s from his newsletter: https://www.heyfarai.com/im-1-wait-did-we-agree-on-why-we-need-1-1-meetings/
• Recap of Farai's "Working with Strangers well" session: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/sunday-rewind-working-with-strangers-well-by-farai-madzima/ 
• Seth Godin: https://www.sethgodin.com/
• Lina's summary of "Nonviolent Communication" book: https://qualitybits.tech/writing/book-impressions-nonviolent-communication
• Books:
  • "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" by Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick M. Lencioni

If you liked this episode, you may enjoy this one:
Radical Candor: Effective Feedback and Helping People We Work with Shine with Amy Sandler
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/12259658

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User experience (UX) research is a field that can help us prevent issues before they take place. Greta Ruskiene knows this first-hand: she used to work as a QA and made a career shift to UX with time.

In this episode, we discuss UX research, the art of question-asking, and how frequently, even when we truly believe we know our users, we may not.

Find Greta on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greta-ru%C5%A1kien%C4%97-53183a55/

Mentions and resources:

• WomenGoTech mentoring program: https://womengotech.com/
• On sunk-cost fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
• Figma: https://www.figma.com/
• Paul C. Nutt - "Why Decisions Fail"
• Conferences:
  • Figma's conference: https://config.figma.com/
  • Zeplin conferences: https://zeplin.io/harmony/
  • HFI conference: https://hfi.training/na/thinkers-invited/events
• Google UX design certificate: https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalworkshop-eu/course/gccs-ux-design
• UX research repository: https://condens.io/ux-research-repository/
• WIX UX mentorship: https://www.wixuxmentorship.com/
• Meetups in Lithuania:
  • Fresh meetups: https://www.facebook.com/freshmeetups/ 
  • UX Salon: https://www.meetup.com/ux-salon-vilnius/ 
  • UX Writer Talks: https://www.meetup.com/wix-vilnius-ux-writer-talks/

If you liked this episode, you may enjoy this one:
Creating Valuable Products with Andrea Sipos
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/12123103

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/
- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/

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What's the difference between observability and monitoring? What's a telemetry? Why do they matter, and how could we use them more beneficially?

Abby Bangser shares her journey from a QA to a platform engineer in this episode. We discuss the similarities between testing and infrastructure-related areas like site reliability engineering. In addition, Abby explains observability and shares some sound advice regarding implementing it.

Find Abby on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/
- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@abangser
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/a_bangser

Mentions and resources:

• Abby's talk on measuring quality in production at Ministry of Testing (free sign up is enough to access it): https://www.ministryoftesting.com/talks/567372c2?s_id=14698896 
• Abby's course on Test Automation University - Introduction to Observability for Test Automation: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/observability-for-test-automation/
• ThoughtWorks graph showing different roles and overlaps by Laura Paterson
• Some more fun readings suggested by Abby:
  • https://oschvr.com/posts/what-id-like-as-sre/
  • https://blog.alicegoldfuss.com/how-to-get-into-sre/
  • https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/08/13/root-cause-of-failure-root-cause-of-success/
  • https://www.learningfromincidents.io/
  • https://kratix.io
  • cncf.io/blog/2023/04/11/announcing-a-white-paper-on-platforms-for-cloud-native-computing/
  • https://www.syntasso.io/post/the-12-platform-challenges-recap

If you liked this episode, you may enjoy this one:
Testing in Production with Rouan Wilsenach https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/11623978 

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With over a decade in data-related roles, working with Data Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and MLOps Engineering, Aurimas Griciūnas is a great role model for many people wanting to learn more about data. The author of the SwirlAI newsletter with over 7000 subscribers, Aurimas' posts with visuals explaining data have reached many more people on LinkedIn.

In this episode, Aurimas shares valuable insights about what working with data means. Is it just a trend to be data-driven, or, a reality? Are all the data products big data products? Who and how should help define good business success metrics? Tune in to learn the answers to these questions and much more. 

Find Aurimas on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurimas-griciunas/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aurimas_Gr
- SwirlAI newsletter: https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com 

Mentions and resources:

• Chat GPT: https://chat.openai.com/
• Tools to help with data quality:
  • Great Expectations: https://greatexpectations.io
  • dbt-expectations: https://github.com/calogica/dbt-expectations
• On techniques for testing Machine Learning Models:
  • A/B testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing
  • Multi-arm bandits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/
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We've all worked with "heroes," great professionals who frequently "save the day" in the company. What if we'd instead prevent the day from needing the saving altogether?

Dan Abel believes in 10x teams rather than 10x engineers. Listen to this episode to learn more about it and what aspects to concentrate on when setting up the teams for success.

Find Dan on:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-abel/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/twicezer0
- Dan's 10x Teams website: https://ten-x.team
- Dan's blog: https://engineeringandcareering.co.uk/

Mentions and resources:

• Dan's 10x Teams initial article: https://ten-x.team/2023/02/22/build-10x-teams-for-delivery-effectiveness/
• Article on unblocking meetings: https://www.spydergrrl.com/2019/08/the-unstuck-meeting-safe-failure-space.html
• "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words" by Randall Munroe
• "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
• "The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness" by Steve Peters
• Team topologies: https://teamtopologies.com/
• Dunbar's theories:
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming,_Gossip_and_the_Evolution_of_Language
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/
- Website: https://qualitybits.tech/

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