Have you read or heard about 'whole team owns quality'?

I have and I think every team goes through a different journey to get to the whole team owning quality. And ofcourse it's a continuous process.

These are 3 things I try to do on the teams that I work to enable the team

• so that they understand how to think or own quality

• so that I don't become the bottle and slow the feedback loop

1. Share Testing Knowledge 📚

I believe that team cannot think or own quality until the whole team understands what it is. I share the testing knowledge from the basics without thinking that people might already know these concepts.

I try to do this by facilitating different workshops and sessions on all various quality aspects so the team can learn by collaboration and interaction.

2. Collaborate To Build Test Strategy 🤝

Very early in my career I was always asked to come up with test strategy that was set up for team.

But now I try to advocate on teams to collectively collaborate and share ideas that would be part of the test strategy and make it as an evolving process. It helps the team to understand why we thinking about testing strategy, context of how things were decided and it becomes much more meaningful as it's been thougth by the entire team.

3. Quality Champions 🏆

When I'm the only tester on the team it's highly impossible to do all the testing and testing activities by myself. To overcome this challenge I encourage having quality champions on the teams or even better if the whole team wears a testers hat or thinks like a quality champion.

To help the quality champions I pair with them and create some guidance or template documents that they can follow for certain ceremonies like for example what kind of questions to ask during 3 amigos, kickoffs and deskchecks. I don't tell them what questions to ask but help them in coming up with what types of questions to ask.

These are again just the different experimentations I try depending on the teams context to help them and enable the team. And these are just 3 things I have mentioned out of many.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Share it in the comments 👇