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#29 : A special on “Understanding”

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The article I wrote “The Buddha story: Good understanding”, is all about how ‘understanding’ is knowing what is required, and learning to discard what is not necessary or deferring to a later stage.
 
On the same context, SmartBites features TEDx video titled “The power of listening” by William Ury. He explains how listening is essential for understanding, and often overlooked, half of communication.
 
The “nanoLearning” smartbits gives Vivek Mathur’s views on the ‘Role of human intellect in QA‘. He thinks understanding the business context cannot be reproduced by AI and will never be.

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Sketchnote

Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don’t require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.

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#28 : A special on “Structure”

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SmartBites features another great TEDx video titled “Applying the principles of biomimicry to business” by Wiebke Liu. Biomimicry is inspiring businesses, architecture and manufacturing by designing solutions, structures and products that simulate processes that occur in nature. The article I wrote titled “The Power of Geometry” is all about how structure(or organisation) of elements play a key to doing more with less.
 
The “nanoLearning” smartbits gives Sudhir Patnaik’s views on the ‘Role of human intellect in QA‘. He thinks intelligent systems and humans will have to share the roles.
 
Hope you found inspiration to use Sketchnotes. As I mentioned last week, it stimulates visual thinking. If you have not already read it, please read about this brilliant book “Sketchnote handbook” featured in “expandMind” section.
 
Have you had a chance to read the complimentary ebook  “Raise your QANSCIOUSNESS – Test effortlessly”? Do share your thoughts.

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The Power of Geometry

A good running form, a great cycling geometry becomes essential to delivering higher performance with no increase in power output in running and cycling respectively.

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Sketchnote

Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don’t require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.

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#27 : A special on “Thinking”

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This features a great TEDx video titled “How to think, not what to think” as this week’s SmartBites. This is complemented with an interesting article that I wrote titled “Do brilliantly ‘right’ after taking a ‘left’!”.  After all a logical left-brained thinking complemented with a creative right-brained thinking will result in brilliant testing, right?
 
The “nanoLearning” smartbits gives you a quick overview of “Systematic Inventive Thinking”, a problem solving method that enables you to find innovative solutions to problems bounded by hard constraints.
 
The typical way in how we take notes is linear, with text from left to right and lines following each other. Do you know that Sketchnote is a creative way of note taking that stimulates your visual thinking? Read about this brilliant book “Sketchnote handbook” featured in “expandMind” section. I was blown away by this book where each page is a Sketchnote produced by hand!
 
I am very keen to expand the readership of SmartQA digest and transform the way how people perceive and do QA. I seek your help in forwarding this email to passionate engineering & QA colleagues. I am sure that they will enjoy the complimentary ebook  “Raise your QANSCIOUSNESS – Test effortlessly” on signup. Have you had a chance to read this?

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Sketchnote

Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don’t require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.

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#26 : “CIO special”

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Thank you for your patronage. This is our Silver edition, yes the 25th ! Welcome to a special XXV SmartQA Digest!
I have made a lovely eBook for you and a special SmartBites video.
May the poster fill you with bliss.

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CIO views on Quality

SummaryThis article is about views on quality from CIOs curated from a list of interesting articles. It is felt that solution quality is one of

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The power of checklist

Recently I read the book “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande.  “An essential primer on complexity in medicine” is what New York Times states about

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#25: “The Silver Edition”

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Thank you for your patronage. This is our Silver edition, yes the 25th ! Welcome to a special XXV SmartQA Digest!
I have made a lovely eBook for you and a special SmartBites video.
May the poster fill you with bliss.

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24 – “Great quality is about “operationalising”, beyond testing”

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Welcome to SmartQA Digest, that outlines aspects of successful large scale application deployment. Zulfikar outlines how a mindset to ‘system operationalisation’ is key delivering large IT systems successfully. The article outlines three failures of poor operationalisation. Would you agree that a massive failure is really the domino effect of small faults? Enjoy the poster!

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#23 – “10 Thoughts & Creative Thinking”

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Welcome to SmartQA Digest that features thoughts from TEN practitioners from around the world as SmartBites, an article on “Right brained thinking” and a lovely poster on craftsmanship. After all “Craftsmanship is where head touches the heart”.
Have a great day and a lovely weekend. 

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#22 – “Leapfrogging #2”

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Welcome to second-part of the special edition of SmartQA Digest on ‘Leapfrogging’. Tathagat talks about “Systematic Inventive Thinking” & “Network Leadership” in SmartBites. The featured article looks at testing as a left brain activity and the poster resonates with this. Next week we will shift sides to the right brain!

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#21 – “Leapfrogging #1”

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Welcome to a two-part special edition of SmartQA Digest on ‘Leapfrogging‘. The SmartBites by Tathagat features an interesting idea “The Super Organism Mindset”. The featured article looks at what it takes to express well to do high performance QA. Enjoy the poster of “Go beyond”, to leapfrog! Thank you for reading, please do forward to anyone who you think values brilliant quality.

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#20 : “Skilling for future”

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Welcome to a Special Edition of SmartQA Digest on ‘SKILLS’. The SmartBites has the wisdom of Desikan, Raja and Anuj on “Skilling for future”. The featured article takes an interesting look at the role of language to high performance QA. Enjoy the poster inspired by reaching out to the stars. Thank you for reading, please do forward to anyone who you think values brilliant quality.

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