Providing training, coaching and expertise consultancy services in areas related to Agile, Lean,Software Quality and Testing. We help organisations achieve measurable business goals: reducing development costs and time to market, increasing productivity and product quality. To do this effectively, we focus on providing practical skills to your implementation teams, business representatives and managers to address their challenges and deliver more value.
Inspire Quality Services was originally founded in 1996 by Fran O’Hara.
Fran has over 30 years experience in the software industry having worked in development, test, management and now consulting. Fran specialises in pragmatic approaches to lean/agile adoption, quality/testing, and associated practices. For the last 15 years, his main focus has been providing agile/lean coaching, training and advisory support to organisations transitioning to agile.
He is a regular speaker at international conferences and seminars. Fran is a Certified/Professional ScrumMaster, Professional Product Owner, an ISTQB testing tutor at advanced level, a CMMI lead assessor and a fellow of the Irish Computer Society. He co-organises Agile Tour Ireland and co-founded the Irish SIG in Software Testing – SoftTest. His tutorial ’Metamorphosis: Moving To Agile And Staying Agile’ won best tutorial at EuroSTAR Stockholm.