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About the event: We need to talk about testing

We are looking to discuss some of the more exciting topics in testing right now. At the moment, we've found these to be:

• What "should be" the human part of software testing, and what should be automated?
• In 2021, is the testing pyramid considered harmful?
• Observability communities suggest that we invest too much in testing pre-production. Can we move more testing to production?

But we are open to discussing other topics that you think would make for a good conversation.

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Obese societies: Reconceptualising the challenge for public health

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.13275

"For social theorists, including Bourdieu and Schatzki, people are the product of their own past, socially and materially reproduced not in the abstract but through ongoing, recursive relations between practices."

"Giddens’ (1984) contention that practices, as they are enacted and transformed across space and time, constitute the central topics of social analysis and enquiry"

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clear and significant purpose. good ones:

• Strategy development
• working agreements
• a new initiative or action planning
• Working together to develop a clear set of strategic priorities and desired measurable outcomes that the team fully commits to.
• Developing a plan for follow-through and accountability with respect to achieving these goals after the event.
• Facilitating a structured and thoughtful discussion on how the team can improve performance.

What do you want the participants to understand, agree to, rally around, and ultimately act on? How do you want them to feel after the meeting, and what can you do to drive that?

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Opener

• How did you get to be in your current role? (in 3 minutes)

Emotions (what excites and frustrates)

• What excites you about tech leadership?
  • What do you find rewarding?
• What frustrates you about tech leadership?

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A conversation with Scotland’s tech leaders.

• Date | Thursday 15th July 2021
• Time | 7:00pm to 8:30pm BST
• Location | Zoom

Event Info

For our July event, we will be live interviewing a panel of different leaders in technology to ask them about their experience being a leader in tech.

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# distractions

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf
https://www.loom.com/blog/cost-of-context-switching
https://interruptions.net/literature/Gillie-PR89.pdf
http://blog.idonethis.com/distractions-at-work/#:~:text=It%20takes%20an%20average%20of,Multiple%20studies%20confirm%20this.
https://www.themuse.com/advice/this-is-nuts-it-takes-nearly-30-minutes-to-refocus-after-you-get-distracted
https://www.fastcompany.com/944128/worker-interrupted-cost-task-switching
23min: https://www.fastcompany.com/944128/worker-interrupted-cost-task-switching
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/opinion/sunday/a-focus-on-distraction.html

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open tabs

• https://www.citycentremuraltrail.co.uk/murals/murallist
• https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/90bc9223002e4e7fb5661e40032af9ba
• https://www.kirstiewilltravel.com/glasgow-mural-trail/
• https://peoplemakeglasgow.com/things-to-do/city-centre-mural-trail
• https://justinpluslauren.com/glasgow-mural-trail/
• https://theholmestead.com/glasgows-street-art-2/glasgows-street-art/
• https://www.citycentremuraltrail.co.uk/murals/muralabout/31
• https://2018.nuartaberdeen.co.uk/artists/globel-bros-uk/

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http://lookforwardconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TheArtOfPowerfulQuestions.pdf

Powerful questions improve the quality of insight, innovation, and action in our organizations, in our communities, and in our lives.

• What does all this mean?
• What can we do that could help shift this situation
• What haven’t we thought of that could make a difference

Good questions are

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