Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
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Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
thanked contributors on:
Comparing resources whilst designing our Motacon Engineering Management workshop
earned:
Workshop Design for Motacon
awarded Engineering Management Chapter for:
Workshop Design for Motacon
awarded Neil Younger for:
Workshop Design for Motacon
awarded Drew Pontikis for:
Workshop Design for Motacon
Contributions
Imagine driving with a GPS that updates every second versus one that recalculates every ten minutes. Both eventually get you to your destination, but one helps you correct mistakes almost immediately. Feedback density is how frequently your team receives useful information that helps it make better decisions.This is what feedback density is. It is the amount of useful learning a team generates over a given period of time. A team with high feedback density learns continuously through questions, reviews, testing, monitoring, and collaboration. A team with low feedback density spends the same amount of time working but learns much later, making mistakes more expensive to fix.Hanisha Arora
I think I first played darts when I was around 12. So I only had to wait 48 years or so to hit my first maximum at darts. Hope the second doesn’t take that long lol
Grateful for the wonderful artwork for the Leeds Chapter of MoTÂ
In this week's episode of This Week in Quality, we talked about grief. Grief may be a strange topic to talk about in technology, but I think it's an important one. Much of the industry is shifting....
A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.
This is the first time we've had six people with cameras on on the TWiQ stage. Woop! Woop! 🎉Good humans being open and honest about things. Thank you, Judy, for leading the way. 🤩