Leading Quality, Ronald CummingsJohn
Leading Quality, Ronald CummingsJohn
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Leading Quality
How Great Leaders Deliver High-Quality Software and Accelerate Growth

Author: Ronald Cummings-John, Owais Peer

Narrator: Ronald Cummings-John

Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ROI Press

Published: 02/03/2024


Synopsis

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)

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on May 16, 2023

I'm gonna start by saying I've never enjoyed the ones I call "tech books", as in I'm a fiction reader. My thing is fiction. BUT I do read books related to my work and hobbies and sometimes, rarely though, I find real gems. Most of the time not, I just pray for the pages to somehow shrink. Now that y......more

Goodreads review by David Fredh on September 29, 2022

Very well written, a good inspiring read with lots of good advice Read it! Very well written, a good inspiring read with lots of good advice. Especially liked the last couple of chapters and the open ending.......more

Goodreads review by Rasa on August 24, 2020

Short but insightful read about quality. Non technical. Recommend not only for QA people, but everyone whose thinking about product quality. Talking about quality narrative, culture of quality, automation, improving feedback loops, testing infrastructure, aligning team with companies growth metric,......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on July 05, 2020

I bought this book thinking it was something it was not (don't remember what I was originally expecting) and ended up setting it down when I realized it was something else. Picked it up this weekend to see if I could reference it, ended up seeing what this book really is about -- a practical guide o......more

Goodreads review by Marian on August 05, 2019

This book takes a swing at the traditional "Build fast, panic when it lights on fire" mentality in software development. Every specific example of world-class software development companies underestimating the value return from investing in quality encouraged me to apply the same rationality to day......more