Leanne Howard & Tafline Ramos
Ambassador of SkillsClub | Practice Director for Quality Engineering
Join our presentation on: Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering
Leanne Howard & Tafline Ramos
Who is Leanne Howard?
Ambassador of SkillsClub
Excellence in the eyes of our customers is a fundamental belief of Leanne and pivotal to her pragmatic delivery style. Since 2005 Leanne has brought passion to her various roles in testing and business agility at Planit.
Leanne specialises in implementation of better ways of working (BWOW), with a strong focus on quality, customer delight and accelerating delivery based on a business agility mindset. She values the “lightweight” approaches, outcome-focussed working with just-in-time effort which has helped her build the Planit Business Agility Practice community globally.
Leanne has gained a unique insight into frustrations of teams implementing or seeking to uplift agile practices internationally. With 30+ years in the industry Leanne has built up an extensive toolkit which can adapt to any context.
Ethics and Integrity is part of her core values. Continuously learning and collaboratively sharing her knowledge so that others benefit from this wide experience by succeeding first time.
Leanne is a supportive leader that people gravitate to, are excited to learn from and work with. She empathises with the team whilst giving value to the organisation, leading everyone on a journey of growth. She helps the team to succeed in their goals, challenging them to optimise whilst being their professional best friend. Most importantly having fun whilst working. Leanne is passionate about inclusivity and mentors a wide group of diverse people. You can all learn from everyone you have the pleasure to work with.
Leanne volunteers her free time go give back to her profession and to foster better harmony between the various bodies of knowledge. She is a member of the Australian Standards Committee: TMMi Foundation: board member ANZTB and several working groups for ISTQB. Leanne is active in the wider agile and testing communities writing articles and speaking at international conferences to share her craft.
Leanne received the ICT Woman of the Year award from her peers.
Who is Tafline Ramos?
Practice Director for Quality Engineering
As Planit’s global Practice Director for Quality Engineering (QE) and Assurance, Tafline is responsible for driving best practices in QE across Planit, including to consultants and clients worldwide. Tafline has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and has delivered large and complex programmes of work with teams of over 80 quality engineers and testers. Tafline holds a PhD in software testing and is a regular feature in software engineering, technology and quality engineering conferences. Tafline is an international standards leader, developing quality engineering and testing standards with ISO/IEC and IEEE. She is chair of the software and systems engineering committee at Standards Australia (IT-015), representing Australia’s interests in software and systems engineering standards development with ISO. Tafline is also a part-time Professor of Practice at La Trobe University via a partnership with Planit, teaching software testing and metrics to the next generation of software engineers.
What will Leanne Howard & Tafline Ramos be discussing?
Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering
Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering Quality and testing processes adopted within the software development lifecycle can have a significant impact on the quality of the delivered product. Both traditional and agile lifecycle models can fall short of delivering high quality products for various reasons, including engaging testers too late, neglecting non-functional requirements, and failing to invest in quality assurance and testing early. The sheer way the lifecycle is structured – placing testing after development – contributes significantly to these issues. In this presentation, Tafline and Leanne explore critical aspects of quality assurance and testing that are commonly overlooked in traditional and agile lifecycles. We introduce QModel as a quality engineering lifecycle model that is deigned to overcome these challenges. QModel emphasises the adoption of a whole-team approach to continuous quality that embeds quality and testing practices into every lifecycle stage (rather than testing being a separate lifecycle stage). The aim is to “get it right first time” by building quality into each product ,and evaluating quality early and often, thereby avoiding technical debt, reducing costly rework and accelerating the delivery of higher quality products to production.