Talk slides for AgileTD keynote.

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Learning
Through Osmosis
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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Feedback fairy with a
day-job at F-Secure.
Tester, (Polyglot)
Programmer, Speaker,
Author, Community
Facilitator, Conference
Organizer.

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Osmosis

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Finding Mob
Programming
From a non-programmer to
a programmer through osmosis

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Only tester by
profession & only
woman in my team

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Testers don’t break
the code, they break
your illusions about
the code.
- Adapted from James Bach

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“Women only
write comments
in code”

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Dislike of
programming
(Basic, Scheme,Assembler, Fortran,
C++, C, Java, Pascal, Python, C#, Ruby,
JavaScript, Objective C, Swift …)

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There was a need of a change
of ideas…

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Teaching Kids in Pairs

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A talk on a strange idea:
Mob Programming

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"All the brilliant people working on
the same thing, at the same time, in
the same space, on the same
computer." -- Woody Zuill

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Trying it out at office and in
meetups

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Safety is a prerequisite
for learning

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Correcting
Mistakes without
Egos in Play

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Knowing what is
relevant

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Slow allows for
thoughtful
thinking

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Stealth
Exploration

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An All-Female Hackathon

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Programming is like
writing. Getting
started is easy and
it takes a lifetime to
get good at.

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I had great ideas even if
I did not know how to
turn them to code –
removing the distance
is worth the struggle.

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Mobbing Basics
Understanding what it is about better

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Driver
(no thinking)

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(Designated)
Navigator

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4 minutes

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Retrospectives

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If everyone is contributing or
learning it’s the right size

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Two ideas, bias to action and
do both!

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Best ideas win
when you care
about work over
credit

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Learning in a Mob
Moving towards Serendipituous Learning

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Exploratory Testing
Test Automation
Unit Testing
Application Programming
Performance Testing
Security Testing

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Mob Testing

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Cognitive
Dissonance

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Accidental Learning
by being Intentional
about Learning

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5.5 hrs of learning and
2.5 hrs of working puts
you ahead after 1 year
if the gain daily is 1%.
- Llewellyn Falco
http://lfal.co/LearningHourROI

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On being the best…
vs.
LinearViewpoint
I know
everything
you do!
You have
nothing left
to teach
me
Reality
I know more
than you do!
There is still so
much more I
can learn from
you

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Experts are not the
ones who know the
most but ones who
learn the fastest

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1st week with a
15-yo intern

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Comparison
Strong StyleTraditional
I have an idea…
Please take the
keyboard
I have an idea…
Give me the
keyboard

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“I never knew
testing was this
much fun”

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“It only took 40 seconds
for your second test
automation pull request
to get approved!”

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People change their
minds when their
experience conflicts
with their beliefs

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Less regulation as common
style emerges. – Philipp Lüthi

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Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Email: maaret@iki.fi
Twitter: @maaretp
Web: maaretp.com
Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi
(please connect with me through
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