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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Content Creation
Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.
Tara Walton and Vernon Richards join Chris on this week's episode as we talk about content creation.
Before diving into the main topic, Vernon introduces the banter topic of travelling pet peeves - familiar topics covered included comfort, fear, other people, hidden costs and more.
Then we dive into the main topic of content creation.
We cover what motivates us to create content?
To vent, respond, share, build a personal brand, share skills & knowledge, reframe topics to your context, sharpen your thoughts, and gain feedback.
The Peers talk about changes and challenges they've been through in their content creation journey.
Ever thought 'what about all these other people who have already written about this topic?'
We also discuss audience, building on a seed of an idea, seeking feedback and more.
The art of telling an appropriate story relevant to the audience and how useful that is to us as a tester.
Some useful links that we mention:
- Leading Quality by Ronald Cummings John and Owais Peer
- Part-Time YouTuber Academy by Ali Abdaal
- Start With Why by Simon Sinek
- Ship 30 for 30 by Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
- Tara on medium.com
- Vernon on typeshare.co
We hope you found the discussion useful and would love to hear your feedback.
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