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Embracing failure and failing fast is something @jrosaproenca learned from being a researcher. You need to fail in order to later succeed. #CAST2019
Frustrations were felt as work was passed from developers to @jrosaproenca in test. He was finding very simple bugs, finding there was a lack of testability in the product, which lead to slow flaky tests. There wasn't a quality mindset in the team. #CAST2019
These frustrations led @jrosaproenca moving to a developer role. Led him to empathise with developers as there were pressures to develop as much as possible. There was a slow feedback loop and estimation fallacies (such as testing shouldn't take as long as development) #CAST2019
He then moved into a support role where he was looking into symptoms that led to problems and then to bugs. The need to dive deeper into problems led to Joao breaking down barriers he had potentially set himself, such as investigating database issues #CAST2019
High quality conversations between @jrosaproenca and his customers allowed him to understand his customers' contexts. #CAST2019
Next up for @jrosaproenca was Cloud Ops. Is our product healthy? Joao wasn't able to find out as the metrics they were measuring weren't connected to what he needed to know. How do we fix this? Observability! #CAST2019
Ask the question: how do we know that what we are building is healthy? Relates to what @mipsytipsy spoke about earlier about asking questions from the outside to find out what's happening inside. #CAST2019
@jrosaproenca's role as a musician taught him that you should run the 'crappy car stereo' test. Realise how it sounds to users who don't have a great soundsystem. Relates to persons and context in software development. His target audience were people with cheaper cars. #CAST2019
To collaborate with famous musicians and get his songs played on radio shows, @jrosaproenca learned that he should just ask. Reach out to people. Connect with people on Twitter and LinkedIn and ask for opportunities to collaborate. Attend conferences to interact. #CAST2019
Next up was marketing! It was hard to produce content for a product that @jrosaproenca was distant from. Competitor analysis was a skill that he picked up from this role. #CAST2019
Finally, @jrosaproenca was invited back to his original company who had realised a whole team approach to quality was key. The role of Quality Owner was born. Coaching teams, driving test strategy creation, driving quality analysis and drives risk mitigation #CAST2019
Educating teams on CI/CD and Observability are all part of @jrosaproenca's role. Building quality in, quality is valuable to your customer,don't put obstacles in your way, implement observability at all stages, reach out to the community are all lessons Joao has learned #CAST2019
