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:
What quality coaching approaches are proving most effective today?
What do you think?
What techniques, structures, processes or mindsets are making the biggest impacts in quality coaching?
Can you share examples of successful quality coaching approaches?
What made them work?
Which real-world strategies, tools, processes or frameworks are emerging as the most effective to successfully embed quality coaching right now, and how can coaches support teams to pick the right one?
I think right now people are super stressed. Cognitive overload is a real thing, and often software engineers describe their day as 2 hours coding and 6 hours meetings and upgrading libraries.
If this is true for your context, you have to consider how to systematically make testing easier for these people. That means integrating testing frameworks into templates so no-one has to download a tool, its already in their repo.
You provide example test automation scripts that describe what good looks like.
You meet them where they work , writing stuff in markdown mode.
That’s for the technical folks!
For delivery and product folks, promote yourself as a person who can continue the conversation of product value into production. Find out what they care about and see how you can help keep that information available to them in delivery where often that value goes into a black hole until its live in production.