Forming a QA Community of Practice Walter McAdams 01/22/2023 When I was a QA/IT Process Director at a Chicago-based insurance firm, we performed a re-hosting of our entire end-to-end system, and at the time our technology was dated. We...
Navigating the Data Ocean Walter McAdams 09/12/2022 Quality leaders have experienced no shortage of major shifts and revolutions over the years…. The migration from quality assurance to quality engineering The transition from the era of QE 1.0...
DataOps — Where Data, Quality, and Engineering Meet SQA Group 08/09/2022 What is DataOps? Why is it important? And how does it differ from DevOps? Our technical leadership team Rob Ulmschneider, Head of Advanced Analytics, and Walter McAdams, Chief Engineer, recently...
Quality: A Seat in Your Mind Walter McAdams 06/27/2022 Software quality never happens by accident. Rather, it happens because of the conscious application of certain practices, processes, and ceremonies throughout the software delivery lifecycle. It happens because of a...
Choosing Your QE Community Walter McAdams 01/25/2022 It’s hard to think of an industry that hasn’t had to overcome significant challenges over the last two years. Business models were upended overnight. The pressure to incorporate emerging technology,...
QE Leaders, Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow Walter McAdams 11/22/2021 Over the last few months, we’ve talked a lot about the transformation we are starting to see in the IT industry including, but not limited to: the surge of digitization,...
Driving QE Organizational Relevance Philip Sears 10/11/2021 There is no question the business world is in a state of revolution. All departments and leaders face increased pressure to keep the lights on while finding time to innovate...
Build Your QE Team for the Future Walter McAdams 09/13/2021 Almost all departments are experiencing their own mini-revolutions these days, fueled in large part by the surge of emerging tech adoption, heightened pressure to differentiate their product and service offerings,...
Keeping Up Amid the Tech Talent Deficit Walter McAdams 08/12/2021 The tech talent deficit is nothing new; in fact, it’s only gotten worse over recent years, compounded by COVID-19 and the mounting pressure on companies to digitize, automate and accelerate...