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Software Education offer over 50 different courses in software development training.
Business Analysts:
We have a new course! The Agile Business Analyst is available from August.
This workshop helps dispel many of the myths surrounding the BA role within Agile software development, providing participants with practical guidance for how the BA integrates and collaborates with all members of the team.
Interested in Agile?
Agile Project Management is a great two day training course which looks at the core practices and techniques of a number of Agile Methods and their impact on project management activities.
Testers:
Sign up to our ISTQB Software Testing Foundation course and receive a voucher to sit the exam for free! (worth $300 NZD ex GST, $330 AUD inc GST, valid for up to 12 months).
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How Do You Motivate People?
What's your motivation? Career Development? Money? A shiny new toy?
Seriously though, all too often organisations start projects without considering how to motivate the people delivering the work. SoftEd trainer James King has written a post about 'Expectancy Theory' which is the idea that people will only be motivated to do something if they think it will be worth doing. Whether this is the case is based on three things: can they do it, will it make a difference and will they be rewarded for it?
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His post was so popular James followed it up with another post with other motivational techniques that can quite often backfire. Read more to avoid the trap!
Agile = Playing Games?
A lot of Agile coaches encourage their teams to play games but they can have very different approaches to choosing games and different opinions on what the benefit of the games are.
What qualities make a good game: procedural learning, social learning, whether they are motivational? What are the important considerations when choosing a game: what are you trying to teach through the game, when is the correct time to play a game and where is the correct place? Finally, what should a team do after they have played a game to ensure they get the most beneft from it?
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The levels of testing
How do you explain testing? There are both different types of testing activities and there are different stages of testing. Taking inspiration from Boris Beizer's book, "Software Testing Techniques" Bj Rollison talks about the model he uses to illustrate the concept of 'level of testing' in his blog.
In this example (a) Integration is a process by which components are aggregated to create larger components (b) Integration testing is specifically aimed at exposing the problems that arise from the combination of components (c) A system is a big component and (d) System testing concerns issues and behaviours that can only be exposed by testing the entire integrated system or a major part of it. Could these types of models help your business?
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James Bach interview
James Bach has delivered testing courses in Australia and New Zealand with SoftEd since 2003. On his recent visit he delivered a course in Melbourne following a 17 hour overnight bus ride from Sydney after his flight was cancelled. Now that's dedication!
If you missed his recent visit (or didn't, but want to see more of James!) then watch this 8 minute interview he gives about the challenges facing software testers.
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Exploratory Learning
How do you get the most out of the conferences you attend? Some of us examine the schedule cover to cover for weeks, highlighting, underlining and planning. However, if you take an 'exploratory testing' perspective to your conference planning you might find that you get a lot more out of it. If a session isn't working for you, leave and join another. Unfortunately not many of us get the chance to go to more than one conference a year, so make it work for you.
Read more from a tester who used this approach with great success, and bear it in mind when you sign up for this year's STANZ conference!
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SoftEd Trainer Profile: Donna Chin |
Donna Chin is the newest member of our pool of 'knowledge engineers'. She is a senior test analyst with test management experience and she really knows her stuff! She has experience in functional testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, automated testing and performance/stress/load testing.
Donna has had various roles at Fujitsu, Stanley Security Solutions and Ericsson Worldwide
with whom she has worked all over the world. Originally from Canada, she now lives in Wellington and will be travelling all over Australasia to deliver testing courses for us. Luckily she is a fan of travelling, and even enjoys spending time in airports (strange woman). She is a methodical and meticulous tester and also incredibly warm and friendly. We have had amazing feedback from the first few courses she has delivered which are a testament to her professionalism and skill, she's taken to this job like a duck to water!
Donna has a bachelor's degree in Engineering as well as the ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing, and is one of an elite group who have all three ISTQB Advanced Certificates (Advanced Test Manager, Advanced Technical Test Analyst and Advanced Test Analyst).
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SoftEd Runs Courses in Israel
Software Education is delighted to announce that we are delivering our Practices of Agile Teams training course for M86 Security
, the global expert in real-time threat protection and the industry’s leading Secure Web Gateway provider. Our Chief Knowledge Engineer Shane Hastie is flying to M86′s R&D centre in Tel Aviv, Israel in July to deliver the Agile course.
Thom Linden, SVP of Global Research and Development at M86 Security said, “To make a successful transition to Agile, training and coaching from experts, who have the right combination of knowledge and effective interaction skills are extremely valuable. SoftEd has achieved great results in mentoring our development teams to adopt practices and tools to successfully apply Agile in our business.”
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