Over the last few months, I have tried to bring my thoughts together on how we bring QE, Leadership and AI together in an effective manner to ensure we are on the front foot in a world continually infused with more AI first solutions. This series will continue to grow as I learn and evolve my thinking further.
Theory and Ideas
Intelligent Quality Leadership: A Model Still Taking Shape
I’ve been sitting with an idea for a while now. It’s not fully formed yet and that’s exactly why I’m writing about it. One of the things I try to be deliberate about as a leader is not sharing an idea until I’ve actually stress-tested it. It’s easy to post a hot take. It’s harder…
AI Governance and Guardrails: The Conversation Quality Leaders Should Be Leading
The AI governance conversation is already happening in your organisation. The question is whether quality has a seat at the table. This is the second post in the Intelligent Quality Leadership series. It builds on the original model and specifically explores the AI + Leadership corner of the triangle. If you’re new to the series,…
Cognitive Automation: This Isn’t About How Fast You Can Generate Scripts
The rush to automate everything with AI isn’t transformation. It’s just faster mediocrity. Here’s what the QE + AI corner of the triangle actually demands from quality leaders. This is the third post in the Intelligent Quality Leadership series. It explores the QE + AI corner of the triangle, Cognitive Automation. If you’re new to…
Quality Culture: Shared Ownership Is Harder Now, Not Easier
AI hasn’t solved the quality culture problem. It’s made it more complicated. When everyone can generate tests with a prompt, the question of who actually owns quality becomes harder to answer, not easier. This is the fourth post in the Intelligent Quality Leadership series. It explores the Leadership + QE corner of the triangle, where…
The Human in the Loop Isn’t Going Anywhere: They’re Just Moving Up
For the 7th post in the Intelligent Quality Leadership series, I have dived into where having a human still involved in the loop is crucial. These are my thoughts, would love to hear others on this… AI Writes the Test. But Who Decides What to Test? A CTO asked me a question recently that’s stayed…
Practical Posts
IQL Practical #1 – Don’t Just Test the Output… Challenge the Reasoning.
This is the fifth post in the Intelligent Quality Leadership series, and if I’m being honest with myself, I wanted this one to feel different. The first four posts have been heavy on frameworks and thinking models, and while I stand behind every word, I was conscious that we’d been spending a lot of time…
IQL Practical #2 – You’re Testing AI Wrong
Most teams are running their existing playbook against a fundamentally different kind of system. This post in the Intelligent Quality Leadership series covers the five dimensions that separate AI testing strategy from AI testing theatre. Let me describe a pattern I have seen more than once now, and I suspect you have too. A product…
IQL Practical #3 – What Good Governance Actually Looks Like
Not the policy. Not the framework deck. The actual Tuesday morning when something matters. This is part of the Practical track within the Intelligent Quality Leadership series. It builds directly on AI Governance and Guardrails, which made the case for why quality leaders need to be in this conversation. This post is about what that…
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