Testing Peers

Welcome to episode four of the Testing Peers Podcast.

This week we the peers are talking Cognitive Bias.

We find cognitive bias everywhere, the awareness of our own biases and challenging ourselves on those biases are really important.

We discuss cognitive biases that we have encountered in the testing world, biases that we have and the power of influential language projecting biases.

This is a topic close to our hearts, and one that is so important to continue to discuss and challenge each other about.

We touch upon areas of bias, such as anchoring, decision making, mirroring, confirmation and many more.

Further areas of reading: Lisa Crispin - https://lisacrispin.com/2018/01/24/telling-stories-together-practicing-critical-thinking-vts/

We hope you enjoy this episode and encourage you to get in touch with any feedback that you have, either @testingpeers on Twitter or [email protected]

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For episode three, the Peers talk about their experiences around empowering teams, what has worked and what didn't.

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This time around the Peers talk about out positive and negative experiences on 1 to 1s and what has shaped the way we do them as leaders. As you’ll hear from the discussion, we all have different experiences.

We also discuss Simon's shirt choice. Is it Pink or Brown? Check the image out on our twitter!

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Thursday July 18th 2019 is a significant date in the short history of the Testing Peers.

Simon had finally convinced Russell, David and Chris to explore the possibility of podcasting together, and this was when the #testinpeerspodcast channel started in our Slack group.

We were more than half a year into our joined-up adventure and our output had so far provided us with a supportive and accountable peer group, but no output that would be visible to many.

There was a hunger to do more, my initial pitch to the others that I had invited to join me included the possibility of a blog or a conference paper, but I hadn’t considered a podcast.

We started the blog site, but not all of us are bloggers.

I grabbed ahold of the @testingpeers Twitter handle.

What could we do to continue our project?

Simon is a relentless force for spreading his word, and he has been blogging for a decade, he has spoken at conferences and appeared on various webinars and podcasts. He saw a niche in the market for the four of us to go and make our own.

Eventually, we relented and started to talk about the idea of what a podcast could look like.

We transitioned our initial Trello board with ideas for blogs, to those that could become podcast themes.

So welcome to our inaugural episode is an introduction to the four of us. We have some other material already recorded and we hope that we will get better at doing this, it is new, but I already am finding our regular Thursday night beers with the Testing Peers a real highlight to my week! 

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