Where words fail music speaks
The title is a quote by Hans Christian Andersen who is of course best known for his fairy tales. Less well known is that he also was a great music lover who worked with and inspired several composers. His quote reminds us that when you can’t say something, you can let music explain how you feel. Music can give your words a new tone, a new viewpoint. Music is very powerful. In this keynote music lovers Alexandra Schladebeck (violin) and Huib Schoots (trombone) will take the audience on an exploration for artistic parallels between music and their other passion: agile testing. Using music and musical theory as a metaphor they will touch on topics like culture, testing, agile, learning, fast feedback, teamwork and team building. What can testers and people in agile teams learn from how musicians learn and work? And what about quality and improvisations in music? They won’t just be talking about music though – they will also perform live on stage to show that there are many interesting things we can take away from music in our daily agile testing practice. An entertaining and interactive performance with a serious undertone!
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Where words fail music speaks
- 3. Huib Schoots
- 4. Music is Everywhere Music is Important Music is Social Music is Learning Music is Individual Music is Complex
- 5. Our goal: Take you on a journey through music and with music to illustrate some things relevant to agile and testing
- 6. I find your lack of singing disturbing
- 7. Rose rose rose red will I ever see thee wed I will marry at thy will at thy will sire
- 9. Rose rose rose red will I ever see thee wed I will marry at thy will at thy will sire
- 10. Music and learning Instant feedback Reduce complexity to practice Learn fundamentals (own them) Muscle memory You don’t practice from front to back
- 11. Music and communication Let’s do a simple experiment… Close your eyes & listen What do you hear? What do you think of?
- 12. Music and agile teams Sometimes you’re the triangle player
- 13. Music teams and their contexts… Solo Trios/Quartets Bands Orchestra Session Music and agile teams
- 15. Music and testing Exploratory testing & music scripting versus improvisation communication over documentation Experiments: outcome is unsure Non-deterministic & non-reproducible Models Heuristics and patterns
- 16. Heuristics
- 17. …are fallible
- 18. Music and testing Same piece of music needs to adapt to situation… If you have the skills you can do it (and it looks so easy) Now listen to this!
- 20. Lessons Learn your team’s tune Finish your sprints on a good cadence Recognize your role + context Practice + Patterns + Adapting = Star!
- 23. References How to Be a Professional Triangle Player: http://goo.gl/7y9bcI Testing and Music: Parallels in Practice, Skills, and Learning http://www.developsense.com/presentations/2008-06-TestingAndMusic.pdf Cadences: http://goo.gl/DtEoEt Heuristics (4 chords): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOSs38wVnD4 List of 4 chord songs: http://goo.gl/mGCp0V How to write a song: http://goo.gl/CoaBzC Madonna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqIIW7nxBgc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KQiPumzHNA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbDbBal53ig Ray Charles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVuYAHiZb8 Star Wars Music by John Williams James Bond Theme by Monty Norman Jurassic Park Theme by John Williams All about that Bass, Meghan Trainor Other music traditional, arr. Alex Schladebeck
- 24. PLEASE EVALUATE OUR KEYNOTE BY USING THE RATING FUNCTION WHICH YOU CAN FIND AT OUR AWESOME SESSION DETAILS ON: www.agiletestingday.nl THANK YOU!
Editor's Notes
- Reproducible: sure! By recording it. But music is a social event too… It connections to people, provides value to people… There is no perfect way. Any creative product. It is all about people… Relationship between what people do and what people like…