Yeah But Does It Work?!

A weekly newsletter about coaching quality and leading testing by Vernon Richards.

Greetings! Welcome to my newsletter, “Yeah But Does It Work?!”

I’m writing this in December 2022. I’ve just finished my latest Ship 30 sprint, where I published one daily article for 37 consecutive days.

In the last post of that streak, I declared I’d start a newsletter, and this is post number 1!

Why this, why now?

There are a few factors at play:

• With the weirdness going on over at Twitter, I’d like a place to have conversations about the topics I’m interested in without said place being at risk of imploding 😳.

• I enjoyed the buzz I got from sharing my ideas during Ship 30, and I’d like a way to scratch that itch.

• I want to establish a healthy writing rhythm (because “just-in-time” writing and publishing ended up being a bit tiring!).

What kind of space am I looking to build here?

My primary aim is to help people who lead quality and testing but aren’t testing and quality specialists themselves.

These folks often wonder

• how they’re still suffering from bugs, despite all this testing activity going on in their teams.

• When is a good time to hire your first tester?

• Where do you find them?

• Who is responsible for the quality culture on my team?

• What does it look like when the whole team is responsible for quality?

• Yeah, we’ve got all these test cases, but does it work? (hence the name of the newsletter 😊).

My secondary aim is to help quality and testing specialists unleash the power of coaching in their day-to-day work!

What can you expect?

You’ll receive a weekly post every Monday directly to our inbox!

The first one will be on December 12th 2022

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