Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully. In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for…

The Three Aspects of Software Quality – David Chappell

Our world runs on software. Every business depends on it, every mobile phone uses it, and even every new carrelies on code. Without software, modern civilization would fall apart. Given this reality, the quality of thatsoftware really matters. Because it’s so widely used and so important, low-quality software just isn’t acceptable.But what exactly is software quality? It’s not an easy question to answer, since the concept means different thingsto different people. One useful way to think about the topic is to divide software quality into three aspects:functional quality, structural quality,…

Six Thinking Hats – Edward De Bono

Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. “The main difficulty of thinking is confusion,” writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. “We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling…

Notes About Analysis

Analysis aims to have a better understanding of the context by conducting a study in detail. Thorough analysis is critical to conceive and engage with the frame of reference. Causal Analysis Causal analysis is used to find the root cause of the problem. This method seeks for explanations of “Why” questions. It is important to ask “Why” eagerly one after another as each question is covered by a logical response.   Example: “Test effectiveness of our product got worse for the last quarter.” Why did the test effectiveness reports show bad…

Notes About Reasoning

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Reasoning is a specified way of thinking in a particular mindset. Reasoning techniques plays a vital role in decision making process by providing us a procedure to reach a conclusion and solve a problem.  Abductive Reasoning Abductive reasoning is one of the methodological process of logical inference. It takes a cognitive shortcut based on observations of the current conditions to come up with a simple, practical, yet feasible solution. This type of reasoning is taken into account when there is insufficient background information and lack of observable data. Literal Reasoning…

UPCOMING EVENT => How to make test automation reliable, scalable and high-available in large organizations – TestIstanbul

How to make test automation reliable, scalable and high-available in large organizations

Speakers: Berk Kibarer Abstract: “Automation” is not just a hot topic today but is a must-have for technology companies. In large organizations with many products -digital services in our case such as Fizy, Tv plus, Lifebox, Dergilik and goes on…-, it becomes a challenge to build and apply organization-level standards for all teams.In Turkcell Technology, we needed a testing tool to let each team plan, organize and run their tests in a centralized manner. In order to provide such a tool, we’ve overcome the following issues;– Scalability: The tool’s features…

How culture leads to quality? – ProActors

Speakers Berk Kibarer & Tunç Kavaklıoğlu. Time & Location https://www.proactors.tech/events/how-culture-leads-to-quality 27 Oca 18:00 – 20:00 Turkcell Küçükyalı Plaza C Blok, Aydınevler, İnönü Cd. No:22, 34854 Maltepe/İstanbul, Turkey About The Event Quality is a state of covered expectations. And expectations vary depending on the experience which is a collection of processed data or output through a customized model. Once each output and its flow is formed, it is cached and serves as a test itself. That way, we run the cached tests on simply anything that aims to cover the equivalent…