Podcast Episode 45 – Christmas Dinner MVP

Season’s greetings from the Testing Peers!
As with last year we tapped into our ‘great’ creative minds to find a Christmas-themed episode that somehow is loosely associated with software quality.

Podcast Episode 44 – Dream Jobs

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Simon Show Testing Peers Podcast. In this episode, the Peers talk about dream jobs. Before we dive into the main topic, we talk about when we have treated ourselves to dream gifts. From Back to the Future Lego, PlayStations, greenhouses, AC Cobras and coffee machines! The Peers […]

Podcast Episode 43 – Coaching Testing

Hello and welcome back for another episode of the Testing Peers podcast! In this episode, the Peers will be discussing coaching testing. We take a look at coaching credentials outside of our work lives and then dive into defining what coaching is and what it isn’t. Chris mentions a sketchnote made at TestBash 2017, in […]

Podcast Episode 42 – Performance and Goal Setting

Thank you for joining as this time we share our views and ideas on performance and goals setting. Chris starts us off by taking us into the archive of his brain and on to PE – so we share stories of sporting prowess or lack of. We move on to talk about why we do […]

Podcast Episode 41 – Onboarding Testers

Thank you for joining us again. On this episode, we discuss our experience with onboarding new members to our teams. We spend time talking about the good and bad things that have happened and suggest ideas to make the onboarding processes as smooth as possible. Before diving into the main topic, David asks us to […]

Podcast Episode 40 – Testing From The Start

Welcome to episode 40 of the Testing Peers! Episode 40??? How did that happen? Pleased to know people are still listening and supporting us! Thank you so much for this. In this episode, the peers discuss why we would want to have testing/quality activities happening earlier in a project cycle. The benefits of doing this […]

Podcast Episode 39 – Testing Rants

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers. Our gloves are off this week and we don’t have a specific topic to discuss. Instead we allowed the conversation to flow wherever it took us, with the only point being that this was a chance for us to vent about any frustrations we may […]

Podcast Episode 38 – Accountability

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast!! This time the Peers are talking accountability, which is actually the foundational reason for the wider Testing Peers group. After initially discussing the accountability of keeping your camera on in meetings, and what you may have ended up doing with the camera off, such […]

Podcast Episode 37 – Nurturing people

Thank you for joining the Testing Peers as we talk nurturing. We all are passionate about nurturing people and teams. The Peers find we actually we nurture each other quite a bit. We talk about creating a safe spaces, where people are supported, encouraged and act as critical friends. Russell shares a acronym to summaries […]

Podcast Episode 36 – Culture of Quality

Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast. With this podcast, we have matched the age of our youngest Peer as the ripe old age of 36 (Can you guess who?) 🙂 In this episode we talk about a topic which all the peers are passionate about, and that is defining and creating a […]