Listening: an essential skill for software testers
@stephenmounsey www.sketchandscrum.com
“In psychology, pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory” Eysenck & Keane
How do we ListenCritical vs Empathetic Passive vs Active Reductive vs Expansive
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“Everything we do depends for its quality on the thinking we do first and our thinking depends on the quality of our attention to each other”
Nancy Kline
Mihaly Csiksentmihalyi - Flow Mark Goulston – Just Listen Julian Treasure – Sound Business Michael Nichols – The Lost art of listening Richard Robinson - Why The Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down Simon Knight – Pattern recognition Blog Post John Stephenson – The Psychology of Software Testing Nancy Kline – The thinking environment Stephen Covey – Seven habits Jim Carey – Motivational Speech Baker and Watson - Listen Up International listening association
Listening: an essential skill for software testers
@stephenmounsey www.sketchandscrum.com