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Adam Howard

Adam's portrait. He's a white man in his thirties with a shaved head and a close cropped dark beard. He presents with a slight, knowing smile and the glimmer of a good idea in his blue eyes.

Adam Howard

Engineering Manager

Adam is a quality engineering specialist, and is passionate about continually improving how teams are able to rapidly deliver quality software products.

His career has seen him help transform and evolve the way that some of New Zealand’s most successful technology companies think about and approach quality engineering; with a bias towards the collective, the context-driven, and the pragmatic. He’s also regularly shared his experiences through speaking at conferences and meet-ups, providing training and coaching, and contributing to the quality community in New Zealand and around the world.

Adam currently leads the quality engineering practice at Xero.

Fostering a quality quality culture

About

Quality is a slippery notion, and not something that can simply be manufactured and measured. In that sense, it’s a lot like culture.

And just as culture is emergent from a peoples’ values and behaviours, quality emerges from teams’ principles and practices.

In this talk, Adam describes a model for shaping those principles and practices in engineering teams that can nurture a culture of quality engineering.

When


2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Where

Room RHLT1
Rutherford House
Pipitea Campus
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand