Public Speaking

Some of the presentations mentioned below are available on my LinkedIn or on my Slideshare page

• I gave the closing keynote at Agile On the Beach 2024 called Return of the Rockstars, about how we should ensure that we value teams not individuals
• I presented My Team In High Performing But Everyone Hates Us at Newcrafts 2024
• At Lean Agile Scotland 2023 I presented My Team Is High Performing But Everyone Hates Us
• At Agile on the Beach 2023 I spoke about You Built It, Now Support It and also Squads Assemble, Keeping Engagement High When teams Go Remote First
• I also gave the same Why Is Everything So Slow presentation at Lean Agile Scotland 2022
• At Agile on the Beach 2022 I spoke about Why Is Everything So Slow?, a presentation about engineering team speed
• At Agile on the Beach 2021 I spoke about Incrementally Improving Performance of engineers and engineering teams
• I spoke at QCon 2019 about My Team Is High Performing But Everyone Hates Us
• I spoke at the reDevelop conference about how we’ve scaled the team at Bloom & Wild. There’s a video of the talk here.
• At Agile On the Beach I spoke about The Good Testing, The Bad Testing and The Ugly Testing. There’s a video of it on their youtube channel.
• At Agile In the City London I spoke about Testing Your Emotions
• I gave the opening keynote presentation at Agile & Automation Days entitled Check This – Test Automation, A Development Managers View. It was also videoed and is on Youtube.
• I also spoke about The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Testing and also about Improving Performance Feedback at Lean Agile Scotland
• I spoke about The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Testing and also about Improving Performance Feedback at Agile In the City – London.
• I gave a workshop on Using Browser Development Tools at Agile Testing Days 2017
• At Testbash Philadelphia I presented So Mr Testing Coach, What Do You Do? as well as running a workshop on coaching called Coach Or Manager, You Decide!
• I gave a tutorial on Hiring Testers at Testbash Manchester 2017
• I gave a keynote presentation at Test Automation Day entitled Check This – Test Automation, A Development Managers View.
• At Nordic Testing Days 2017 I gave a tutorial on Hiring Testers and presented ‘Up and Away? How Moving Into Software Management Gave Me a Different View Of Testing’.
• I presented How I Lost My Job As a Test Manager at the Testcon Moscow conference.
• At the first UKSTAR conference in London I presented ‘Up and Away? How Moving Into Software Management Gave Me a Different View Of Testing’.
• I spoke at Agile Testing Days 2016 about Testing Your Emotions.
• At Testbash Philadelphia myself and Dan Ashby recorded Testing In The Pub – Live!
• I gave the opening keynote ‘Up and Away? How Moving Into Software Management Gave Me a Different View Of Testing‘ at the WeTest 2016 Auckland and Wellington conferences.
• At Nordic Testing Days 2016 I taught a Technical Mobile Testing tutorial with Richard Bradshaw.
• I presented How I Lost My Job As a Test Manager at Test Masters Academy Spring 2016 as well as teaching a Technical Mobile Testing tutorial with Richard Bradshaw.
•  At the EuroSTAR Mobile Deep Dive 2015, I gave a talk about how Mobile Users Are Different.
• At EuroSTAR 2015 I presented How I Lost My Job As a Test Manager.
• At Mobile App Europe 2015 I presented Understanding Your Mobile User.
• I presented Mobile Testing, That’s Just a Smaller Screen, Right? at SoftTest Ireland 2015.
•  I taught a Mobile Testing workshop and presented How I Lost My Job As a Test Manager at Nordic Testing Days 2015.
• At Belgian Testing Days 2015 I ran a workshop on Testers Hierarchy of Needs and presented Testing Your Emotions.
• I presented How I Lost My Job As a Test Manager at TestBash 2015.
• I spoke at the Agile In Covent Garden Meet-up on Automation and Testing.
• At EuroSTAR 2014 I presented Understanding Your Mobile User.
• At Mobile App Europe 2014 I presented Mobile Testing, That’s Just a Smaller Screen, Right?
• I presented Testing As An Activity at the 2014 Next Generation Testing conference.
• My presentation, Testing Your Emotions, which I gave at Nordic Testing Days 2014.
• I spoke at the Romanian Testing Conference in May. My slides on mobile software testing are here.
• A mobile testing presentation that I gave at the March 2014 SIGIST conference.
• All About Mobile Testing, a presentation I gave to the Bournemouth Test Retreat on 20th November 2013.
• On 18th September I presented at the Surrey STC Tester Gathering – an updated version of Introduction to Mobile Software Testing.
• I was lucky enough to be able to speak at TestBash 2.0 in March 2013. I presented A Testers Hierarchy of Needs.
• An Introduction to Mobile Software Testing that I presented at the Reading Tester Gathering in February 2013.
• In May 2012 I gave a keynote speech at The Next Generation Testing Conference in London, Mobile Testing, That’s Just a Smaller Screen, Right? Here are the slides I presented: Mobile Software Testing Thats Just a Smaller Screen, Right – Stephen Janaway.

Webinars and Online Tutorials

• I have had a number of online mobile testing training lessons published on The Ministry of Testing Dojo.
• The Mobile Tester, Your Place On The Team for EuroSTAR Conferences.
• The Current State of Mobile Testing for EuroSTAR Conferences.

Published Articles

I blog on this site and also on Medium as well as writing for various other publications.

• Why Is Everything So Slow?, written for InfoQ
• I was interviewed by Computer Weekly about The Changing Shape of Mobile Apps.
• A Testers Guide To Managing Your Manager, an article for Testing Trapeze magazine.
• Top Browser Plugins For Testing, an article for Ministry of Testing.
• My article Testing Your Emotions was published in the Fall issue of Method&Tools.
• An interview I did with the Adventures In QA blog.
• I contributed to the recent issue of DevOps Perspectives.
• I was recently interviewed for Computer Weekly, about the test strategy at Net-a-Porter, and my forthcoming talk at the Next Generation Testing Conference.
• Left To My Own Devices, an article on mobile device test strategy that I wrote for the June 2014 edition of Testing Circus.
• Reach Out Beyond the Software Testing Community, an article I had published in the January edition of Testing Circus.
• Understanding Your Mobile User – an article I wrote for The Testing Planet.
• Training Testers – an interview I did for The Testing Planet.
• Get Out and Test – an article I wrote for The Ministry of Testing.
• Mobile Testing, That’s Just a Smaller Screen, Right? – an article I wrote for The Testing Planet.
• A cautionary tale regarding the importance of exercising care when choosing mobile device test data – also for The Testing Planet.
• Beyond the Smartphone – Testing for the Developing World – an article I wrote for Testing Experience number 19, Sept. 2012.
• Move Closer – Transition to TestDevOps – an article I wrote for Professional Tester magazine, issue 17, Oct. 2012.

Podcasts

• I help present and curate the Testing In the Pub podcast.

Other

• I am the organiser of West London Lean Coffee.
• I am proud to be a mentor for Speak Easy, helping to get new conference speakers prepared for their first conference talks.