The six thinking hats technique for problem solving duration. Eight years on, these have remained useful and valuable for many people involved in software testing. Six hats on software testing other testing test huddle. Oct 01, 2008 julian harty, one of our senior test engineers, is presenting a keynote at the starwest conference today wednesday, october 1 on six thinking hats for software testers. How to solve problems using the six thinking hats method. His work is now widely used in education and business. While one person is explaining the facts, another is thinking about the benefits and a third person is thinking about the negative aspects. The key is to list questions that everybody can focus on and cycle through. It is also known as the black hat session, as the black hat is really important to it, as ill describe later. Recently ive been listening a lot of videos, while driving to work, and back from work to home. Parallel thinking is a practice in which the focus of all participants at any given time is in the same direction. To keep the group focused on providing feedback based on different views of the same situation minus the conflicts, im using a methodology created by edward debono called six thinking hats. The author presents a structure to make thinking more effective when decisions must be made.
The 6 thinking hats of software testing download testuff. It forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style, and to look at things from a number of different perspectives. Our testing is only as good as our thinkingand all too often we are hampered by limiting ideas, poor communication, and preset roles and. This work has been presented, developed, and refined over the last 5 years. Six thinking hats one of the issues with groups of people trying to think creatively is that individuals will criticise the ideas of others and derail creative thinking. That video is julian hartys talk from starwest 2008. Oct 04, 2009 i had written about six thinking hats and its association with software testing a while back. Software testing teams that fail to don all 6 of his cognitive thinking hats run the. The six thinking hats concept aims to minimize the confusion in thinking that arises because of the way the human brain usually thinkstaking into consideration emotions, facts, creativity, hope, and logic all at once. How to use the six thinking hats to improve your thinking.
Dec 09, 2014 the six thinking hats technique for problem solving duration. In order to prepare students for an upcoming achievement test, a small group of students had to be pulled from phys ed class once a week to work on writing skills. This particular interpretation of the six thinking hats is specifically targeted toward individuals who deal with daily challenges in their business, career, and life. Our testing is only as good as our thinkingand all too often we are hampered by limiting ideas, poor communication, and preset roles and responsibilities. Six thinking hats for software testers stickyminds. Groups of people can roleplay with the six thinking hats using case studies and examples in the book. Listen in to learn how you can apply them to your work, and escape from your testing rut.
Jul 25, 2016 in 2008 julian gave a popular keynote titled six thinking hats at the starwest conference, detailing ways testers could usefully improve their testing practices by applying various concepts and ideas to how they work. Instead of focusing on everything at once, we focus on things one at a time to maximize the efficiency of the thinking process. According to this new philosophy, it is possible to fuse the best components of many different cognitive styles to achieve optimal results in project management. Seeing things in various ways is often a good idea in strategy formation or complex decisionmaking processes. Free software testing tutorial software testing by. Vudocs, random, attribute, scamper, role usage, analogy, mind maps, six thinking hats, fishbone, 5w approach, ignite. An online course which serves as a supplement to your facetoface training in six thinking hats, the new thinking leader or the course in creativity cost. Independent software testing consultant this webinar presents the concepts of six thinking hats, and demonstrates how they have been applied to software testing. Lynda curtin, creative thinking solutions with lateral. Each hat has a different purpose and there is a meta hat which. Applying six thinking hats to lets test conference flow of testing. Six thinking hats online an online course which serves as a supplement to your facetoface training in six thinking hats, the new thinking leader or the course in creativity cost. The six thinking hats is a lateral thinking tool designed to provide structure to the thinking of an individual or a group.
The 6 thinking hats of software quality assurance testing testuff. A study to investigate how six thinking hats enhance the. Software testing symposium auckland 2018 testingmind. The 6 thinking hats of software testing 0 download. The six thinking hats the white hat implies that the person will only provide information as hard facts.
Our testing is only as good as our thinking and all too often we are hampered by limiting ideas, poor communication, and preset roles and responsibilities. These are the six thinking hats, showing various different ways of approaching problems but of course, not everyone is alike, and people will naturally prefer some ways of thinking to others. Thinking hats that make software testing effective creative explorer. The point of using this hat is to make sure that everyone is working with the same objective, uninterpreted set of data. Direct teaching of thinking as a skill cort cognitive research trust thinking. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Six thinking hats for software testers julian harty starwest. One case study analysis was conducted by ballantyne et al. Hats help a group to use parallel thinking color of hat identifies the type or direction of thinking the main idea is to have the group wear only one hat at a time introduction to six thinking hats. How six thinking hats can help with user experience testing. One approaches each challenge by stepping outside the box in order to gain perspectives that might otherwise remain hidden.
Six thinking hats, lateral thinking, and focus on facilitation. This is your opportunity in life to break through the barriers and through your software testing work move over to being cross functional and unleash the innovation streak in you and take your work to new exciting level. There are six different color imaginary hats that you can put on or take off. Parallel thinking and the six thinking hats atomic spin. I had written about six thinking hats and its association with software testing a while back. The six thinking hats problem solving method tries to solve this by making the whole group think of the same part of the problem at the same time. Used with welldefined and explicit return on investment success in corporations worldwide, six thinking hats is a simple, effective parallel thinking process. The six thinking hats, it is a book i believe meant for manager positions, the book itself defines itself as thinking methods that could change the way we think. Wikipedia describes the underlying principle like this. Each hat has a different purpose and there is a meta hat which drives. The 6 thinking hats of software testing 2 introduction the term lateral thinking describes a problemsolving methodology in which users employ reasoning that may not be immediately obvious.
By breaking down thoughts into six parallel or lateral areas, it allows a spectrum of thought, from gut feeling to data analysis, to be separately discussed. In 2008 julian gave a popular keynote titled six thinking hats at the starwest conference, detailing ways testers could usefully improve their testing practices by applying various concepts and ideas to how they work. Six thinking hats is a tool for structuring a discussion to make the process more efficient. Six thinking hats and the associated idea parallel thinking provide a means for groups to plan thinking processes in a. If you are wondering where he got the idea for hats, it comes from the. The red hat is the hat that allows the person to express any kind of feeling without needing provide any reasons. Anuj magazine looks at how this concept can help with user experience testing. Six thinking hats in ramalingam 2006, overseas development institut odi.
Consider offering a brief presentation or short prereading on the nature of parallel thinking. Recently, one of my colleagues had an opportunity to put the six thinking hats thinking tool to use. In my quest to further explore its usage, i gave a shot to use this amazing concept for creative writing. The six thinking hats of exploratory testing planit. The 6 thinking hats of software quality assurance testing. Among tens of videos ive listened, one has rose above others. Hat to these lateral thinking styles each of which should be worn throughout the entire project development cycle. May 10, 20 the title of the talk is six thinking hats for software testers and you can watch it here. Planit the six thinking hats of exploratory testing. Posted by jessica tomechak, test engineering team julian harty, one of our senior test engineers, is presenting a keynote at the starwest conference today wednesday, october 1 on six thinking hats for software testers. And although we generally encourage starting with the blue hat, there.
Former fbi negotiator chris voss at the australia real estate conference. The title of the talk is six thinking hats for software testers and you can watch it. Six thinking hats debono consulting guide of the technique. In this era of increased speedtomarket where focus is more on lean and agile, exploratory testing has become more significant than ever. In the book he talks about promoting multidimensional thinking by mapping different colors to different cognitive styles. Six thinking hats for software testers julian harty. I had been sporadically using this concept in my daytoday life. Six thinking hats ihi institute for healthcare improvement. Oct 16, 20 the six thinking hats concept aims to minimize the confusion in thinking that arises because of the way the human brain usually thinkstaking into consideration emotions, facts, creativity, hope, and logic all at once. Using 6 thinking hats for better design thoughtworks. Putting on a different thinking cap can help you innovate solutions in a whole new way.
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