Testing Peers
Testing Peers is a growing community of ~60 peers in testing, software quality, agility, test leadership, engineering management, and broader software development. We’re united by a shared goal: to drive quality in everything we do within our workplaces and beyond. Through collaboration, accountability, and mutual support, we strive to elevate one another both professionally and personally.
The Testing Peers podcast is now expanding beyond its original four hosts, David Maynard, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford and Simon Prior, striving to represent the voices of a diverse and thriving community. Our inaugural in-person conference, PeersCon, launched in Nottingham in March 2024 and will return in March 2025, further solidifying Testing Peers as a not-for-profit, by testers, for testers initiative.
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Testing Leadership
Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers!
This week, join Simon, David, Russell and (semi-regular) Shey as they talk about leadership in testing.
The episode kicks off with a discussion about leadership icons outside of testing, before diving into leadership in testing.
Shey shares his journey into leadership, and how he discovered unhelpful leadership traits from his first lead.
The Peers discuss what makes a good leader, words like passion, respect, confidence, humility and more come through.
They also discuss about imposter syndrome and how most leaders do have it, referencing Matthew Syed's work on alter-egos: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5bLKS1rRJjbQ8nzN0pwvdnC/why-we-all-need-an-alter-ego
There's some really useful advice in this episode, we hope you found it helpful.
Shey also mentions a video, which can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
We hope you found the discussion useful and would love to hear your feedback.
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