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Anne-Marie Charrett
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The Vernon Richard Show
Should Testers Bother With Social Media?
In this episode of the Vernon Richard Show, the hosts discuss the significance of social media and community interaction in the software testing field. They explore how social media has evolved, the importance of content creation, and the balance between personal goals and professional networking. The conversation also touches on their favorite podcasts and books, as well as future directions for their own show.06:10 - Olly FairhallOlly's LinkedInOlly's Bluesky11:27 - Chris ArmstrongChris's blogChris's podcast The Testing Peers (of PeersCon fame!)Chris's YouTubeChris's LinkedIn19:52 - Anne-Marie CharrettAnne-Marie's book (why are you still here? Go and buy it right now...
2025-06-17
59 min
Frontmatter
Anne-Marie Charrett, Author of The Quality Coach's Handbook
In this episode of the Leanpub Podcast, Len Epp interviews Anne-Marie Charrett, author of The Quality Coach’s Handbook. Anne-Marie shares her journey from test automation to becoming a leader in quality coaching and engineering. She discusses her roles thoughout her career, and how she advocates for embedding quality practices throughout software teams. The conversation explores the evolving nature of quality roles, how coaching can shift organizational mindsets, and why technical excellence must align with empathy and communication. Anne-Marie also shares lessons learned from conference speaking, mentoring others, and helping teams build a shared understanding of what “quality” means in differ...
2025-06-10
58 min
Quality Blether
S02 EP08 - Anne-Marie Charrett Queen of Quality Coaching
Anne-Marie Charrett is a very experienced tester, a sort-after presenter on the conference circuit, a trainer, a EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award Winner, and quite possibly the Queen of Quality Coaching. In this wide-ranging conversation, we cover many topics within Quality and testing, motorcycles, and even the definition of Quality itself.Anne-Marie's Websitehttps://www.annemariecharrett.com/Book RecommendationsAgile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction by Lisa Crispin and Janet GregoryAgile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet GregoryMore Agile Testing...
2024-06-06
59 min
The Vernon Richard Show
Conference Rejected, Networking and Joining a New Team
In this conversation, Richard and Vernon discuss the experience of being rejected for conference talks and the importance of actionable feedback. They emphasize the need for clear and compelling abstracts, as well as the value of networking and building relationships within the industry. They encourage individuals to continue sharing their stories and knowledge through alternative platforms such as YouTube, blogs, and meetups.The conversation also touches on the power of diversity in conference lineups and the importance of providing opportunities for underrepresented voices. In this conversation, Richard and Vernon discuss the importance of networking and building relationships...
2024-05-06
1h 07
Agile Mentors Podcast
#60: Breaking the Agile Déjà Vu: Tackling Recurring Anti-Patterns with Reese Schmit
In this episode of the Agile Mentors Podcast, Brian welcomes Agile coach Reese Schmit who shares her tips for breaking recurring anti-patterns in teams and organizations through the power of the why. Overview In this episode of the Agile Mentors Podcast, Brian is joined by Agile Coach Reese Schmit to discuss identifying and tackling recurring Agile anti-patterns in teams and organizations. Reese shares her valuable insights on the significance of understanding the "why" behind Agile practice and avoiding the trap of "cargo cult Scrum." Listen in as she shares her tips for fostering transparency, collaboration...
2023-08-09
39 min
AB Testing
Episode 155: Quality Coaching with Anne-Marie Charrett
We are honored to have Anne-Marie Charrett join us this week to talk about quality coaching. Anne-Marie currently works at CultureAmp where she puts quality coaching into practice. You can find her on twitter (@charrett), and on her website. Her ongoing book on quality coaching is available here, with fresh installments monthly.
2022-02-22
58 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Mark Tomlinson Performance Engineering & Observability
In this episode, we talk about observability from a performance engineering perspective. We talk about how this new emphasis on observability is a game changer for performance engineering, typically once viewed as a solo activity, but not something that benefits the whole team. Some good quotes: "the whole, the whole rationale for investing in observability practices, changing your language, changing your approach is to affect the future" "Information is no good if it's just between you and me, we fix the problem and we never talk about it again.""So for me...
2021-04-26
38 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Episode 17 Quality Coaching Roadshow Abby Bangser
In this episode, Abby talks about Site Reliability Engineering, Service Level Objectives, Toil, the power of Storytelling, influencing Management and why Quality Coaching and Site Reliability Engineering have a lot in common.
2021-01-12
27 min
Quare MeetCast
Exploratory Testing Reclaimed With Maaret And Anne - Marie - 16.12.2020
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! To support the show, go to: www.patreon.com/quare_dev patronite.pl/quare_dev
2020-12-22
1h 19
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Episode 16 Quality Coaching Roadshow Claire M Goss
In this episode, we talk about large projects, how to explain our job to non-technical people within an organisation and creating a shared vision of success to enrich the UAT process. We also talk about Mentoring, Enthusiasm, Empathy and Community.
2020-12-03
24 min
Software Crafts Podcast
Interview with Lisa Crispin
In this episode, Lisa Crispin shares her experiences with the pattern “Delayed Automation” from the Cloud Native Patterns repository (https://www.cnpatterns.org/development-design/delayed-automation). We discuss the different trade-offs of applying it, based on different contexts. I also ask a long-time question: What can we learn from donkeys? If you are curious why, donkeys are Lisa’s brand! Lisa recommends: Quality Coaching Roadshow podcast from Anne-Marie Charrett Accelerate book from Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim Leading Quality book from Ronald Cummings-John and Owais Peer Lisa Crispin (@lisacrispin) is the co-author, with Janet Gregor...
2020-09-30
34 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Episode 15 Quality Coach Roadshow Maaret Pyhäjärvi
In this episode we talk a lot about learning, different approaches to learning, being a catalyst within an organisation and sitting with discomfort. Some classic Maaret quotes: "Automation is how we document Exploratory Testing" "FAIL -> First Attempt at Learning""Accepting the discomfort of not knowing is a skill"Next episode completes the discussion. Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a feedback fairy with a day job at Vaisala, where she works as Principal Test Engineer. She identifies as empirical technologist, tester and programmer, catalyst for improvement, author and speaker, and community fa...
2020-09-29
29 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Episode 14: Beth Skurrie on PACT, Heuristics and Perfectionism
We continue our conversation with Beth Skurrie co-founder of pactflow.io and all round awesome person. We continue talking about PACT applied, making conscious decisions around tool selection and keeping tech relevant. Some 'more' Bethesque quotes"end to end test are the wrong type of tests to check low level, request and response fields""what it does is it gives us the right tool at the right level to test the right thing" "It's not dictator driven contracts"it's not a tool is good or a bad tool. Different tools are appropriate in...
2020-08-11
23 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Code Quality , PACT & Tradeoffs in Test Automation Beth Skurrie
In this episode we talk to Beth Skurrie co-founder of pactflow.io and all round awesome person. We talk about quality (of course!) and what quality is from a coding perspective. The difficulty in using tools to assist in quality. Levels of abstraction and the test automation pyramid and how its useful in trade offs. Plus some stuff on when to write tests. Some Bethesque quotes"These days, responsiveness is kind of a quality in itself""The tools are very good at identifying things, but you use the tool, the tool should not use you."
2020-08-03
23 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Tim Beattie - Global Head of Product at Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
In this episode, Tim talks about how collaboration, visualisation and metrics in an open organisation can help teams to achieve exceptional business outcomes. We also discuss plumbers.
2020-07-01
30 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Quality Coaching Roadshow: Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory, Anne-Marie Charrett: Part 3
This is the final part of a three part chat (for the moment) with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about what's next for agile teams and testing and the importance of taking small steps. We also mention not being taken in by smoke and mirrors, resilience, observability and complexity.
2020-06-02
18 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Quality Coaching Roadshow: Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory, Anne-Marie Charrett: Part 2
This is the second part of a three part chat with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about remote working and coaching remotely, consulting vs coaching, finding a Purpose, Pomodoro and taking small steps when in unchartered waters. Plus, more about donkeys.
2020-06-01
27 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Quality Coaching Roadshow: Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory, Anne-Marie Charrett: Part 1
This is the first part of a three part chat with Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Anne Marie Charrett. In it we talk about the similarities between quality coaching and whole-team quality and we also talk about Elephants and Donkeys!
2020-05-29
24 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Quality Coach Roadshow: Tim O'Brien Wargaming Sydney - Testing Strategies and Rework
In this episode we speak to Tim O'Brien from Wargaming Sydney. Heard of the game "World of Tanks"? It was brought to you by these lovely folks. I wanted to chat with Tim to give us an understanding how quality coaching fits into this unique context. We talk metrics (in particular rework), we talk about the key to being influential. Also how teams can own the testing strategy.
2020-05-01
35 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Joao Proenca - Quality Owner at Outsystems Episode 6
Joao talks about being a Quality Owner, how it came about, how he uses Riskstorming and the fact that change takes time. The youtube presentation he references is found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlygHJIFjTA
2020-04-05
26 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Venus Nautiyal - Quality Lead at Amaysim - IWD2020 Episode
In this special International Women's Day Episode, we chat with Venus Nautiyal who works for Amaysim. Venus and I chat about a range of stuff including Microservices, Bounded Context and autonomy in tool selection. Being involved early in Product Ideation and how they customised the Atlassian Quality Assistance Model to suit their context.Venus blogs at https://medium.com/@venus.nautiyal
2020-03-07
41 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Ali Hill - Developer at ECS Digital Episode 5
Anne-Marie Charrett speaks to Ali Hill on Quality Coaching security controls on an AWS Infrastructure. They chat BDD, TDD, Collaboration and the power of small experiments. In this chat we mention Ali's talk at Agile Automation days. You can watch it here https://youtu.be/oamcCqz_eOQ
2020-02-29
34 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Areti Panou - Quality Coach at SAP Episode 4
Areti talks about working in a centralised quality coaching team that supports multiple Dev teams, challenges for QA in moving to more frequent deployments, being a Time Blocker to enable teams to think about their problems and potential solutions and empowering teams to become autonomous. Fun fact: This podcast took a while to record due to a misbehaving coffee machine and some poorly-timed phone calls!
2020-02-03
26 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Sahar Khoshraveshan - Quality Coach at Atlassian Episode 3
In Episode 3 of the Quality Coach Roadshow journeys to Sydney, Australia where Sahar Khoshraveshan, Quality Coach at Atlassian speak to us about the importance of unlearning, fast feedback and speaking to product to help improve quality. Fun Fact: This was intended to be the first episode, but we need prior approval from Atlassian to thats why its the third.
2020-01-05
30 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Rob Meaney, Poppulo - Part 2 - Episode 2
In this episode, the second part of our chat with Rob Meaney, we talk about the challenges of quality coaching and creating a common vision.
2019-12-07
24 min
Quality Coaching Roadshow
Rob Meaney, Poppulo - Epiphanies and Abilities - Episode 1
In this the first episode of the podcast, we talk to Rob Meaney, Quality Coach at Poppulo. In it, Rob talks about his career and using his experiences to help him grow.
2019-12-06
20 min
IT Career Energizer
Share Your Value and Don’t be Afraid to Ask for Advice to Progress Your Career with Anne-Marie Charrett
GUEST BIO: Anne-Marie is a software tester, trainer and coach with a reputation of excellence and passion for the craft of software testing. An electronic engineer by trade, software testing chose her when she started testing protocols against European standards. Anne-Marie has developed software testing courses and lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Phil’s guest on today’s show is Anne-Marie Charrett. She is currently running her own software testing, training and coaching business. By trade, she is an electronic engineer, who, early in her career became inter...
2019-02-18
23 min
Quality Remarks - The Podcast
QR Episode 5 - Anne Marie Charrett
When I was running the Barclays Global Test Center, I started a meme to inspire our team to be their best. If I saw someone working tirelessly on their craft, challenging the status quo, or being a leader, I would call them a "badass software tester". Anne-Marie Charrett was the model for that name. Never afraid to call it like she sees it, you can count on her to be a fearless voice of reason in our business. As well, she is an awesome force for change in testing through organizing meet ups, coaching sessions, and conferences all over the wo...
2017-07-26
1h 18
Quality Remarks - The Podcast
QR Episode 5 - Anne Marie Charrett
When I was running the Barclays Global Test Center, I started a meme to inspire our team to be their best. If I saw someone working tirelessly on their craft, challenging the status quo, or being a leader, I would call them a "badass software tester". Anne-Marie Charrett was the model for that name. Never afraid to call it like she sees it, you can count on her to be a fearless voice of reason in our business. As well, she is an awesome force for change in testing through organizing meet ups, coaching sessions, and conferences all over the wo...
2017-07-26
1h 18
The Agile Revolution Podcast
Episode 124: Talking Testing with Anne-Marie Charrett
Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Anne-Marie Charrett who is well known in the testing community as a trainer, coach and consultant but also for her support of the community: Don Reinertsen talk “Thriving in a Stochastic World“ Context-Driven Testing Testing is a verb – it’s a doing thing and not an … Continue reading →
2017-01-18
00 min
The Agile Revolution
Episode 124: Talking Testing with Anne-Marie Charrett
Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Anne-Marie Charrett who is well known in the testing community as a trainer, coach and consultant but also for her support of the community: Don Reinertsen talk “Thriving in a Stochastic World“ Context-Driven Testing Testing is a verb – it’s a doing thing and not an … Continue reading →
2017-01-18
00 min
Testcast
1.12 Coaching Testers
In this show we discuss coaching testers with Anne-Marie Charrett and James Bach.
2012-06-07
1h 05