February NYC Testers event

Speakers: Martin Hynie &Anna Royzman

Martin Hynie
With over fifteen years of specialization in software testing, Martin Hynie’ s attention has gradually focused on emphasizing value through communication, team development, organizational learning, and the significant role that testers can play to help enable these.

A self-confessed conference and workshop junkie, Martin travels the world to meet inspiring people, and learn whatever he can. He incorporates ideas introduced by various sources of inspiration (including Cynefin, complexity in social systems, context-driven testing, the Satir Model, trading zones, various agile principles, Pragmatic Marketing, and progressive movement training)

Follow Martin:

• Twitter: @vds4

• LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/whoisvds4 (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/whoisvds4-)

• (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/whoisvds4-) Blog: www.DevelopersBestFriend.com

• Website: http://www.vds4Consulting.com

Anna Royzman

Anna Royzman is the founder of Global Quality Leadership Institute, the non-profit organization, whose goal is to become the leading advocate for quality in technology through innovative educational programs. Test Masters Academy, an initiative that is envisioned and managed by Anna directly, organizes annual Test Leadership Congress (in the Spring) and New Testing Conference (in the Fall).

Anna serves as the Executive At Large on Association for Software Testing’s Board of Directors. She has been a QA Lead and Manager for 14+ years, served as a president of AST Quality Leader SIG (2012-2014) and as a member of STP Community Advisory Board (2014-2015). Anna is co-founder of NYC Testers and founder of TMA's Leadership Series meetup.

Follow Anna:

• Twitter: @QA_nna @TestMastersAcad

• LinkedIn Profile: http://bit.ly/2lGcnl4 (http://bit.ly/2lGcnl4-)

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• TestMastersAcademy.org (https://www.meetup.com/Test-Masters-Academy-Leadership-Series/TestMastersAcademy.orgTestLeadershipCongress-ny.com)

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Topic: Cynefin and Complexity… Why Testers Should Start Tuning In

What is Cynefin? Why does complexity theory and the work of Dave Snowden keep showing up more and more often in software blog posts these days?

In this meet up, Anna and Martin invite the NYC testing community to join them in a moderated discussion on what makes this field of study so interesting. They will share their thoughts, experiences, observations, and discoveries since experimenting with complexity theory, SenseMaking and Cynefin.

Bring your questions and bring your experiences. Through these we can hopefully provide just enough context to discover:

• Why Cynefin and complexity theory should be of massive interest to software testers.

• Shifting tester mindsets from "thinking differently" to "gaining better access to different thoughts”.

• How Cynefin compliments context driven testing.

• Pitfalls and traps to avoid when getting started.

• Who to follow and what to start reading.