During a Cosmic Conversation about the possibilities of Quality Coaching with @cakehurstryan and @kato , at episode 10 of The Testing Planet, Callum and Kat answered this question:
Do the possibilities of quality coaching change in different teams and contexts?
What do you think?
How do factors like company culture, team size, testing maturity, or development approach influence the role of quality coaching?
Can you share an example where quality coaching looked very different in one team compared to another?
What signs indicate a team is ready for a different coaching approach?
How can coaches identify the best way to tailor coaching strategies for teams with different needs?
Context matters a lot. If a team owns a legacy product that is low risk, has good quality and doesn’t change a lot, do they need you to come in to facilitate exploratory testing sessions? Perhaps not.
on the other hand teams with complex integrations might really benefit from some ET.
How do factors like company culture, team size, testing maturity, or development approach influence the role of quality coaching?
Check out Kent Becks work on 3X that demonstrates how risk changes depending on maturity of a product. A startup behaves differently to a scaleup that behaves differently to enterprise. How they think about risk changes too. So if your risk profile is changing then how you think about quality changes too.
Can you share an example where quality coaching looked very different in one team compared to another?
See my answer on ET and legacy systems above
What signs indicate a team is ready for a different coaching approach?
again depends on the teams motivation and skill level. Hopefully the team will ask you! But if you have quality health checks in place that might give you an indicator of changing your approach. And of course, asking for feedback is great. Hopefully, you’re building up some trust and so they feel comfortable telling you.
How can coaches identify the best way to tailor coaching strategies for teams with different needs?
It really depends on wether your managing 2 or 10 teams. There’s no way if you are coaching 10 teams you can go 1:1 and find out what strategies they want.
you need an operating model that at a team level is more push (to you, as in them asking you for help) than pull (you pulling to them- are you ok, can I help) that allows you to focus on a more systematic level coaching people (eng managers, practice leads) who can drive c
I am a Level Two cricket coach. When coaching cricket, each player is a different context. The coaching courses I have taken taught me techniques to understand the context and use the appropriate coaching skills for each player. I wrote these posts about coaching: