Live from Day 3 of the Virtual Community Days 2020, the Founder of Technology Leadership Forum, an expert in systems testing, award-winning keynote speaker, author of 6 books on risk, assurance, and testing. 

The one and only Paul Gerrard (gerrardconsulting.com)the eminent software consultant, author, teacher, coach, and the winner of multiple lifetime achievement awards. 

This is your life ... After graduating from Oxford University in 1979 with a MA in Engineering Science his rowing friends still talk of his legendary debating and drinking skills. 

In 1984 he took his first role as a developer for a leading communications company, since then he has worked for the Foreign Office (no wonder Brexit happened), Walt Disney himself said that the Mandalorian series on Disney plus was actually based on Paul character.

He has dabbled with Parliament (out drinking and outdebating Nigel Farage a good friend of Trump), he was a lecturer on Python back when it was still cool, in a recent interview with the BBC he controversially, said 'Testing is Dead' even before Dave Snowden had the chance to announce 'Agile is Dead' during this week's Virtual Community Days.

Jonathon has the chance to ask him about his 'New Model for Testing' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xAhPACyso) which will change the testing world forever!

Espresso Talks welcomes Chief Evangelist of Perfecto.io, Eran Kinsbruner. Author of the recently published Accelerating Software Quality: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08FKW8B9B/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_736UFbEJ6VMVC).

In this episode, Eran explores the future of mobile working with next-generation industry trends and insights.

If you want to stay ahead of the curve, then do not miss this episode, featuring the Digital Mobile Index (Mobile & Web Test Coverage Index | Perfecto by Perforce).

Make sure you register now for the upcoming Virtual Community Days 2020 from December 1st to 4th which Eran will be the opening keynote on Friday! Massive thanks to the team at Perforce.com who will be gold sponsors for this event!

Espresso Talks welcomes CEO & Founder of testRigor, Artem Golubev, and the Dark Arts Wizard, Paul Grossman.

In this episode, we have set down the gauntlet to automation gurus to complete the CandyMapper Sandbox Challenge!

Artem talks about the power of testRigor and how they cleared both www.CandyMapper.com and www.CandyMapperR2.com in record time! 

We also explore the holy grail of test automation and natural language processing (NLP). Check out this exclusive demo (https://youtu.be/c5FkP5SOf8E)

Espresso Talks welcomes Micro Focus Americas Alliance Partner Marketing Leader, Sheryl Wharff.  Sheryl is responsible for helping Alliance partners to creatively leverage Alliance Marketing Funds to drive programs that generate pipeline, market visibility, and revenue growth for both companies.  Jonathon Wright chats with her about her career path and all that she has accomplished along the way - the list is long.  Sheryl offers some great insight on the industry and many tips for those getting started or looking for advancement. 

This Women in Technology episode is sponsored by Micro Focus.  Be sure to view the benefits of the Micro Focus Partner Program.

Bob Crews (@BobCrews_CPTech), Vivit Board Director/Community Chair and CEO of CheckPoint Technologies (checkpointtech.com)  steps in as the host for this Women in Technology episode of Espresso Talks. 

Bob chats with Vivit’s dynamic duo; Teri Sarallo, Americas Liaison and Iris Boers, EMEA/APJ Liaison about the benefits of being a part of our Local User and Special Interest Groups.  Join the enthusiasm from this trio and expand your role in the Vivit Community.   

Become a Vivit Member at vivit-worldwide.org and select REGISTER

Join a Local User Group https://www.vivit-worldwide.org/page/LocalUserGroups

Join a Special Interest Group https://www.vivit-worldwide.org/page/SIGS

Register for an event on our Community Calendar https://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/event_list.asp

Espresso Talks Women in Technology

Espresso Talks welcomes QA Consultants, Tammy Young. It was a warm welcome from Jonathon Wright to former Vivit Board Director and Community Chairperson.  Tammy explores her notorious career with Mercury, HP and now Micro Focus tooling on this episode.  She proves how you can make a career out of leveraging Micro Focus products from startups to elevator companies - the only way is up!  This Women in Technology episode is sponsored by QA Consultants.

This Espresso Talks “Women in Technology” series episode welcomes Micro Focus Community Manager, Raquel Winkler.  Jonathon Wright discusses the ins and outs of the online community and all that it offers its users. Raquel highlights Online Expert Days, Blogs and Tips, and their Discussions Forums. She explains how to subscribe to product areas, blogs, categories and specific posts. This online community prides itself on “sharing knowledge and listening to its users”.

#WeSupportYou #EspressoTalks Giles Lindsay (@anyone4seconds) is the Chief Technology Officer for Digital Ventures (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gileslindsay/). Will be speaking at the upcoming Unicom Virtual Conference on the 17th of July (hhttps://conference.unicom.co.uk/showcases/2020/july/london/). Vivit-Worldwide in partnership with Unicom will be giving away 10 free places to the community!This talk looks at the challenges that are preventing agile leadership from being successful in the workplace. Giles, an Enterprise Agile Consultant, has identified many of these throughout his 25 years’ experience, working in both small companies and large enterprises. The talk revolves around several big and common challenges, that we as agile champions may face in the workplace and what we should try to do to overcome them, in allowing genuine agile and successful leadership to flourish.

#WeSupportYou #EspressoTalks Colin Deady (@ethicalwebsites) is the Head of Product & Innovation for Capita Application Services (https://www.linkedin.com/company/capita-application-services). Will be speaking at the upcoming Unicom Virtual Conference on the 17th of July (https://conference.unicom.co.uk/showcases/2020/july/london/). Vivit-Worldwide in partnership with Unicom will be giving away 10 free places to the community!  This presentation specifically looks at the contexts in which Scrum is a great choice and by definition where it is not using examples, I have had to deal with over the years. I then look at some of the Lean principles, ie: “leanifying” Scrum to rebase it to be suitable for alternative contexts.

#WeSupportYou #EspressoTalks Travis Greene is Sr. Director of ITOM Product Marketing at Micro Focus (https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisgreene/). In this episode we are going to cover all things ITOM related, including RPA, SMAX, NoM & OpsBridge. Plus future trends such as AIOps, OpsDev & NoOps!