Everyone Owns Quality? Really? - Gitte Ottosen - Quality engineering - Software Testing Unleashed

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Quality engineering Cross-functional teams software quality test design techniques agile testing

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Are Cross-Functional Teams Really Working? Deep Skills vs. Shallow Roles in Agile Free e-book: The 7 success factors of software testing. 25 years of project experience in one 33-page workbook, now also in English Get it for free "When we expect that everybody is supposed to do everything, then nobody does anything really good." - Gitte Ottosen In this episode, I talk with Gitte Ottosen about cross functional teams, quality engineering, and how deep skills fit in agile work. We question the Everyone owns quality mantra. If all own it, who does the hard parts. Gitte calls out mechanical agile and the comb shape myth that makes people wide and shallow. We talk about what Scrum expects from a team and why testers still bring sharp value. AI may take easy tasks, yet we need critical thinking and solid test design to judge its output. Gitte Ottosen is a test manager and quality coach with a strong focus on a value driven approach to software development. She has 30 years of experience in IT, primarily within test, test management and process improvement, in both traditional and agile contexts. She is focusing on supporting a quality mindset across teams and organizations in Denmark.