Test Leadership
FULL-DAY WORKSHOP
The change game of quality
You know quality, testing, and risk need improvement—but where do you start, and how do you create real change? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll take on real-world challenges through a team-based game. You’ll prioritise quality improvements, tackle testing and testability issues, manage risk, and lead change under pressure. Learn to influence stakeholders, use risk appetite frameworks, and apply strategies that strengthen both product quality and organisational resilience.
In this workshop, Ard and Szilard will guide participants through an interactive simulation where teams act as a quality group in a fictional company. Attendees will confront dilemmas in prioritisation, stakeholder management, and risk communication under constraints of time and budget. The workshop will cover the Risk Appetite framework, strategies for leading change, and the influence of technology maturity, including AI. Through iterative challenges, reflection, and peer feedback, participants will sharpen skills in persuasion, resilience, and leadership. By the end, they will be equipped to identify, prioritise, and implement improvements that drive meaningful organisational change.
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Ard Kramer
Ard is a software tester from the Netherlands and he works at OrangeCrest. He calls himself a Qualisopher which stands for someone “who loves truth and wisdom and at the same time is decisive to improve man and his environment” . This means he is interested in the world around us, to see what he can learn and he can apply in software testing. His dream is to participate, as a good qualisopher, in all kind of projects such as sports, culture or software testing.
Szilard Szell
Szilárd Széll is a DevOps and AI Transformation Lead, Test Coach, and SAFe 6.0 SPC at Eficode. He has 25 years of experience with DevOps transformation, especially in the telco industry, and lately focusing on AI. He has also worked as an assessor, trainer, facilitator, and coach, and awarded Tester of the Year 2024 in Finland. Szilard is very involved in the testing community, runs a Meetup, active in ISTQB as a Product Owner, and is a member of the Hungarian Software Testing Board (HTB). For many years, Szilard has been working on and supporting conferences like HUSTEF, UCAAT, EuroSTAR.