Leading Quality: How Great Leaders Deliver High Quality Software and Accelerate Growth

by Ronald Cummings - John, Owais Peer

Overview

What is the true meaning of quality? How can you influence positive attitudes towards quality within the workplace?

Leading Quality teaches you how to influence and align your company’s definition of quality, so that you can deliver the best possible experience to your clients. You will learn the techniques successful leaders use to make their strategic decisions and you will be given the tools to ensure that your team is in alignment to achieving common goals. Leading Quality is the first book that teaches why quality is important and how to incorporate it within the workspace.

Praise for Leading Quality:

“A quality mindset remains key to differentiating your product and your company. Leading Quality offers key lessons to develop this mindset.”

- Michael Lopp, author of Managing Humans and VP of Product Engineering at Slack

“Leading Quality communicates just how important a focus on quality is within your company and is one of the few titles that actually teaches how to lead quality in a clear yet captivating manner.”

- Shesh Patel, Engineering Manager at The New York Times

“Three elements define any successful product: quality, quality, and quality. Leading Quality is a comprehensive and practical guide to embedding quality into the DNA of any product organization.”

- Nick Caldwell, CPO at Looker and former VP of Engineering at Reddit

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781916185807
Publisher:	Roi Press
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Pages:	154
Sales rank:	821,380
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. How Quality Lost it's Value
2. The Power of a Quality Narrative
3. Leading a Culture of Quality
4. Foundations: Manual Testing vs Automation
5. How Quality Changes with Product Maturity
6. Improving Feedback Loops to Supercharge Continuous Testing
7. Investing in Testing Infrastructure
8. Align Your Team to Your Company Growth Metric
9. Driving Growth with Local Personas
10. Leading Quality Strategy

Bonus Chapter: The Future: Autonomous Testing

Editorial Reviews

“A quality mindset remains key to differentiating your product and your company. Leading Quality offers key lessons to develop this mindset.” – Michael Lopp, author of Managing Humans and VP of Product Engineering at Slack

“Three elements define any successful product: quality, quality, and quality. Leading Quality is a comprehensive and practical guide to embedding quality into the DNA of any product organization.” – Nick Caldwell, CPO at Looker and former VP of Engineering at Reddit

“Every crisis of quality begins as a crisis of leadership. Leading Quality will help you avoid both kinds of trouble.” – James Bach, author of Lessons Learned in Software Testing

“A very solid and worthwhile read, Leading Quality adds new perspectives and real-life stories with little twists that extend the existing wisdom about quality in today’s IT world.” – Rik Marselis, author of Testing in the digital age: AI makes the difference

“Leading Quality provides a fascinating insight to help guide leaders in their journey to implement effective QA strategies, particularly when delivering high-quality products in IT.” – Ilya Sakharov, Director of QA at HelloFresh

“Finally! A book to help managers and executives understand why they should care about quality and why a big investment in quality pays off in the form of a successful product. Insights and stories from leading quality practitioners illustrate why and how companies need to focus on quality.” – Lisa Crispin, author of Agile Testing and More Agile Testing

“If you are a manager contemplating automated or continuous testing, there are valuable insights within these pages.” – Robert Martin, author of The Clean Coder

“Most books in this space just focus on the details of testing, this is the first book that tells you how to LEAD quality.” – Daniel Knott, author of Hands-On Mobile App Testing

“Leading Quality stands out as one of the few titles that actually talks about how to lead quality from a manager’s perspective. A great read for those who want to take their team to the next level.” – Stephen Janaway, VP Engineering at Bloom & Wild

“While testers already have an intuitive and instinctive grasp of why quality is important for their organizations, many of them have a hard time explaining this concept in a way that inspires attention, motivation, or action in their C-Level colleagues. This is where Leading Quality comes in. It’s full of interesting examples and useful ways to articulate why quality is important and how it can help your company.” – Vernon Richards, Managing Director at House of Test (UK), conference host & speaker

“Quality software will never happen from testing alone. The highest-quality software comes from teams and organizations that have a culture of quality―and achieving a culture of quality requires strong quality leadership. This excellent book from Ron and Owais interweaves stories about quality and leadership with pragmatic advice and research that anyone can use to lead quality in their own organizations.” – Alan Page, Quality Director at Unity Technologies and cohost of the AB Testing podcast

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