This presentation has been prepared by Mr Ashutosh Pandey Deputy Dean at QBI Institute. The presentation covers Neoro Lingustic Programming and its applicability for IT Professionals.
This document provides information about using code words as part of positive change hypnosis. It explains that code words act as a shortcut to recall motivations, goals, and behaviors when trying to make meaningful changes. The technique involves writing a statement linking a code word to concepts and ideas related to one's goals, and then using self-hypnosis or relaxation to program the subconscious mind to associate the code word with the full statement. Saying the code word daily helps maintain focus on commitments and reinforce positive change. An example code word statement for weight loss is also provided.
This document discusses neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as a method for self-development. NLP is described as a scientifically proven method to create personal change by communicating effectively with one's mind and nervous system. The training objectives are to help participants learn how to identify their life purpose and self-image, analyze obstacles, and develop goals and plans for personal excellence. Key aspects of NLP covered include visualization techniques, understanding how information is received, exercises for finding one's purpose, and developing bottom lines and mastermind teams for goal achievement.
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This document provides an overview of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP was created in the 1970s as a method to influence brain functioning through language and communication. It aims to help people change unwanted behaviors and mental patterns. The document discusses key NLP concepts like modalities, the meta model, and how NLP can be used to improve communication, relationships, thinking, and achieve goals. NLP treats how we think, develop desires and fears, and give meaning to experiences. It is used by many professionals and can benefit both individuals and businesses.
This document appears to be promoting a keynote speaking offer from Thinque, a strategic foresight and creativity consulting firm. The summary is:
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The document discusses common and uncommon phobias. It then discusses bad habits and introduces the SWISH pattern as a method for replacing undesirable behaviors or fears with empowering responses. The SWISH pattern involves identifying the behavior to change, creating an ideal image of performing the new behavior, and using visualization to "swish" the ideal image over the original one to replace it. The key is to repeat the process quickly.
Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP) is a system of alternative therapy based on the idea that people's thoughts, language, and behaviors are connected. NLP seeks to help people become more self-aware and effective communicators by changing patterns learned through experience. NLP focuses on a person's internal "maps" of the world and how neurological and linguistic filters shape their perceptions and behaviors. The core presuppositions of NLP are that people's maps determine their actions, not objective reality, and that impoverished maps can limit choices and cause problems. NLP therapy aims to identify and replace unhelpful thought patterns with more useful ones to increase behavioral flexibility.
Intorduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)eohart
The document discusses Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and how it can be applied in the workplace. NLP focuses on how our neurology, language, and programming influence our behaviors and communication. The key principles of NLP discussed in the document are that people have the resources to change, behavior is geared towards adaptation, and accepting people while changing behaviors.
NLP involves the neurological processes of how we experience the world through our senses, the linguistic representation of our experiences, and training ourselves to think and act in new positive ways. The document also provides guidance on using feedback constructively, delivering positive messages, setting outcomes with students, and using stories and guided fantasies to impart metaphors.
This document provides an introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It discusses the key concepts of NLP including its pillars (you, rapport, outcome thinking, sensory acuity, flexibility), presuppositions, and potential uses. The author explains that NLP can be used to develop better communication skills, achieve goals, and create a more fulfilling life by identifying and changing limiting beliefs and behaviors at both the conscious and subconscious levels. NLP offers simple techniques to improve all areas of one's life, from relationships and health to career and business performance.
This document provides an overview and introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It begins by defining NLP as a study of subjective experience that focuses on patterns of neurology, language, and programming to achieve outcomes. The document then outlines some of NLP's key concepts, including its presuppositions, the conscious and unconscious mind, the communication model, and rapport building. It describes NLP's goal of understanding internal representations and the filters of deletion, distortion, and generalization that shape one's perceptions. The summary aims to give a high-level sense of NLP's focus on patterns, subjective experience, and achieving desired outcomes through language and behavior.
What is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)Fiona Campbell
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a methodology developed in the 1970s to understand and change human behavior patterns. It studies the connection between our neurology, language, and programming (how we think and act). NLP researchers deconstructed how successful therapists achieved results to identify techniques like word choice, questioning, tone of voice, and posture. NLP is used for coaching, communication, motivation, and influencing in business. It helps people create more choices in life by deconstructing behavior to model or change outcomes. NLP continues developing through research in neuroscience and many practitioners.
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NLP Rapport Building: 3 Awesome NLP Techniques To Build Rapport EffectivelyMichael Lee
NLP rapport building is one of the most subtle yet effective techniques you can use to persuade anybody and everybody. If you’re ready to equip yourself with NLP techniques to deal with people better, view this presentation.
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This document provides an overview of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and how it can be applied to education. It discusses the two founders of NLP and how NLP studies human excellence. It then describes the three main learning styles - visual, auditory, and kinesthetic - and how understanding a student's preferred learning style can help improve their learning and memory. The document provides details on how to identify a student's learning style and tips teachers can use to help all students learn more effectively.
This document discusses emotional intelligence and its importance. It defines emotional intelligence as the capacity to perceive, understand and manage emotions. It explains that emotional intelligence includes intrapersonal skills like self-awareness and interpersonal skills like empathy. Developing emotional intelligence allows one to bring people together, build relationships, and motivate and adapt to change. The document suggests emotional intelligence is important for teachers to address behavior, help students, and create a supportive learning environment where students feel respected and responsible for their own feelings.
Test Management for IT Business AnalystsQBI Institute
The document discusses the objectives and importance of software testing. It aims to find undiscovered errors through executing test cases that have a high probability of uncovering issues. Testing represents the final review of specifications, design, and code to ensure software quality. Defects can arise due to bad communication, design, or coding. Effective testing principles include linking tests to requirements, planning tests early, applying the Pareto principle, starting small and progressing to larger tests, recognizing exhaustive testing is impossible, and having an independent third party conduct testing.
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This presentation summarizes key points from Subroto Bagchi's book "The Professional". It discusses the definitions of "profession" and "professional" and lists characteristics of a professional such as integrity, commitment, continuous learning, communication skills, and quality of work. The presentation also identifies behaviors that are not considered professional like missing deadlines, plagiarism, and mindless job hopping.
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This presentation covers in details Essentials of Project Management. Prepared by QBI Institute which is known for IT Business Analyst, Project Management Trainings.
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The document discusses effective branding and positioning strategies for companies, including properly managing client relationships, doing research to gain insights, establishing credibility, linking recommendations to client needs, providing definitions, confirming claims, recommending actions, and offering ongoing support. It also contains multiple repetitions of the website www.qbi.in.
The document discusses software testing and agile methodologies. It defines software testing as executing a program with the intent of finding errors. A good test case has a high probability of finding undiscovered errors. It also discusses why software has defects such as bad communication, design, and coding. The document then covers agile methodologies like Scrum, which is an iterative development process involving sprints, daily stand-ups, and product backlogs. It provides synonyms for "agile" and discusses concepts like story mapping in agile projects.
Applications of NLP Part 2: Modalities and Representational Systems By Ms. Rukmini Iyer
Visual, auditory, kinesthetic, gustatory and olfactory are the five primary sensory modalities that we use to experience the world around us (the neuro of Neuro Linguistic Programming).These modalities are also known as representational systems (rep systems) as they are the primary ways we represent, code, store and give meaning or language (linguistic) to our experiences. In this talk, we will explore our preferred modalities and ways to use this knowledge.
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The document discusses use case diagrams and their components like actors, use cases, relationships, and scenarios. It provides examples of use case diagrams for an electricity bill payment system, including actors like the bill receiver, administrator, SMS software, bill payee, and subscriber. Methods for documenting use case descriptions and scenarios are also presented.
This document provides an overview of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It discusses how NLP studies excellence in fields like communication, psychotherapy, and education to understand the interaction between neurology, language, and behavioral programming. The six principles of NLP are outlined, including rapport, outcome orientation, sensory acuity, and behavioral flexibility. Building rapport through mirroring body language, words, and other behaviors is described as a way to connect with others.
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This document outlines the lectures for an introduction to natural language processing course taught over 3 sessions. The first lecture covers an introduction to NLP, the 6 categories of linguistic knowledge including syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It also discusses typical NLP tasks such as part-of-speech tagging and tokenization. The second lecture focuses on semantics and content analysis using FrameNet and GATE. The third lecture reviews typical NLP tasks and covers more complex tasks such as question answering, named entity recognition and information extraction.
The document promotes a course in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which is described as a set of practices for thinking differently in order to make new decisions and choices that lead to better results in work and relationships. The course is taught by two experienced trainers and aims to help students develop strengths, learn new patterns of thinking, and apply NLP concepts and language techniques to achieve goals. Students will receive materials and opportunities to practice and continue developing their NLP skills.
The document discusses several techniques for requirements analysis including acceptance and evaluation criteria, benchmarking, and brainstorming. For each technique, definitions, advantages, disadvantages, and areas of applicability are provided. Acceptance criteria help ensure requirements are testable and address contractual obligations but may be difficult to change. Benchmarking provides competitive information but is time-consuming and may lack innovative ideas. Brainstorming elicits many ideas quickly in a non-judgmental way but depends on participant creativity.
This presentation discusses Microsoft Visio and how it can be used to create diagrams and flowcharts. It covers topics such as the Visio interface, shapes, connectors, themes, and preparing UML diagrams. Templates and stencils can be used to insert pre-made shapes. Contextual tabs appear when relevant tools are needed. Pages can be inserted, deleted, and reordered.
Personality analysis can provide insight into a person's character that may not be evident from their outward personality. Character makes up 80% of who a person is, compared to only 20% defined by personality. Understanding personality analysis allows one to see below the surface and gain a deeper understanding of others. It provides knowledge about how internal factors shape behavior and interactions with the world.
This document outlines an agenda for a 10-day training on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Each day covers multiple topics related to NLP concepts and techniques. The training aims to increase trainers' knowledge and skills on active learning strategies to effectively communicate NLP sessions. Key objectives include understanding active learning, demonstrating a training strategy beyond lecturing, attracting participants, and creating a proper training environment.
The document discusses neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) which is a method for understanding and changing thought patterns, beliefs and behaviors. It covers the four pillars of NLP: rapport, outcome orientation, sensory acuity, and behavioral flexibility. The agenda outlines an introduction to NLP including its history and applications, as well as a discussion of what NLP is, why people do what they do, and how to use NLP techniques to improve communication and achieve goals.
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The document provides an agenda for a training on natural language processing (NLP). It will cover an introduction to NLP, including its four pillars of rapport, outcome orientation, sensory acuity, and behavioral flexibility. It will explain what NLP is and why it is useful. The training will be informal and give participants hands-on experience with NLP techniques to change thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs. The overall learning outcome is for participants to get a foundational understanding of NLP and how it can be applied in business, education, health, and therapy.
De mystifying nlp - what is it and how can it help my businessalisonguthrie
The document discusses what NLP is and how it can benefit businesses. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and involves understanding how language, neurological processes, and programming influence our behaviors. NLP can help businesses by improving communication skills, influencing and persuading others, managing emotions, setting and achieving goals, and developing staff. By learning NLP techniques, businesses can communicate more effectively, build rapport, remove barriers, and gain a psychological advantage that supports growth.
The document describes levels of personal development training offered by The Ryan Nickel Co. in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). It explains key NLP concepts like representational systems and the importance of having "toward" goals rather than "away from" goals. The highest level of training is a 6-day NLP practitioner certification course. Lower levels include sales training, script refining, and a custom 1-day seminar on creating profits. Ryan Nickel has over 10 years of experience using NLP to build businesses and offers a free introductory session to assess fit before accepting clients for training.
The document provides information about improving communication through Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It discusses how NLP can help individuals change their internal representations and communication patterns to achieve desired outcomes. The 5-step NLP sales process is described, including establishing rapport, asking questions, finding needs, linking products/services to needs, and closing the sale. The goal of NLP and this sales process is to help people improve communication with themselves and others.
The document provides information about improving communication through Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It discusses how NLP can help individuals improve communication with themselves, others, and their business. It defines key NLP concepts like representational systems and outlines techniques for building rapport through matching physiology, tonality, and language patterns. The document aims to teach readers NLP strategies for effective communication.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a method developed in the 1970s to enhance people's potential in all areas of life. NLP works by understanding how people process sensations ("neuro"), language ("linguistic"), and resulting behaviors ("programming"). This two-day workshop by IndianNLP will teach NLP concepts like submodalities, meta programs, and modeling to help participants become more effective communicators, coaches, and leaders. The training is designed to facilitate lasting personal and organizational change through small-group interaction and application of NLP techniques.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was developed in 1975 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. It studies how the brain, language, and body interact to produce patterns of behavior. NLP focuses on beliefs and how they shape thoughts, actions, and perceptions. The principles of NLP aim to help people utilize their strengths and model excellence through understanding how their behaviors are influenced by internal representations and external experiences. NLP can benefit people of all ages, professions, and backgrounds by improving productivity, efficiency, leadership, and relationships through managing internal states and developing flexibility.
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a method that uses principles of neurology, linguistics and behavioral psychology to understand communication and establish rapport. The document discusses:
- The components of NLP as Neuro (nervous system), Linguistic (language) and Programming (organizing one's communication abilities).
- Key NLP concepts like presuppositions, the Meta Model questions, anchoring, reframing and the Milton model for indirect communication.
- How NLP techniques can be applied in areas like understanding others, communication skills, flexibility and confidence.
- Timeline therapy which uses NLP and hypnosis to clear negative emotions attached to past memories and limiting beliefs, producing
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs, that adherents use primarily as an approach to personal development. NLP was influenced by the ideas of the New Age era as well as beliefs in human potential.
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This document provides an introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and sales excellence. It discusses that NLP focuses on how people think and communicate effectively to influence others and achieve desired outcomes. The key facets of NLP discussed are building rapport, focusing on outcomes, paying attention to sensory cues from others, and having flexible behaviors. Calibration, communication models, presuppositions, metaphors and modeling high performers are techniques presented to help improve sales skills.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an interpersonal communication model founded in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP aims to study language, communication, and personal change to increase flexibility and choice. NLP techniques like anchoring, swish, and reframing are used to help people change behaviors and thought patterns. NLP can be applied in language learning by helping teachers understand student learning styles and helping students identify how they learn best. NLP uses in the classroom allow students to explore how they construct their understanding of the world and manage their own learning processes.
This document outlines an agenda for a workshop on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). It will cover the four pillars of NLP: rapport, outcome orientation, sensory acuity, and behavioral flexibility. These skills can help improve relationships, handle difficult people, resolve conflicts, and increase personal flexibility. The workshop will be a hands-on introduction to NLP concepts and techniques to help participants gain more control over their thoughts, feelings, actions, and lives.
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Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a model about human behavior. It is not a theory because a theory must be proved. On the other hand a model merely has to be tested and if the model yields consistent results; it qualifies as a working model.
This document provides an overview of a club webinar from July 2014 on leadership performance and capability. It includes summaries of key topics covered:
1. A learning journey framework called UAAR (Understand, Assess, Act, Reflect) to enhance leadership performance through understanding situations, assessment, taking action, and reflection.
2. Factors that influence an individual's learning, including panic/comfort zones and how structured learning, repetition, coaching and reflection can facilitate moving into the learning zone.
3. Case studies were discussed to share learnings around strategic internal communication and developing employee understanding, identification, and alignment with organizational objectives.
4. Additional material covered neuro-linguistic programming
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a discipline that studies how language and the nervous system interact and how we can use that interaction to think, communicate, and achieve goals more effectively. NLP involves altering interactions between language and the nervous system to create desired results. It is used in sales, business, psychology, sports, and personal development to reprogram limiting beliefs and behaviors into more successful strategies. NLP recognizes that our experiences determine how we think and act through our five senses and the four modalities of visual remembered, visual constructed, auditory remembered, and auditory digital.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) was developed in the 1960s-1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP studies human excellence and how people achieve outstanding results. It involves the study of language, neurology, and programming to help people change behaviors and achieve goals. NLP can be used to help with success, overcoming bad habits or phobias, and living a more fulfilled life. The core principles of NLP include setting clear outcomes, using sensory awareness to achieve outcomes, varying behaviors flexibly, and taking action.
Preparing Professional (Requirement) Documents Using MS WordQBI Institute
Business Analysts, Business Consultants, Business Managers have to prepare Professional Requirement Documents.
This presentation equips professionals with requisite MS Word Skills,
Here You Learn
How to Use Out Line View (For Table of Content and Autonumbering)
How to Use Navigation Pane
How to Insert Cover Page and Back Page
How to Manage Page Numbers
How to Manage Chapters in your Document
How to have multiple layouts
Short Cut Keys etc
Test Management for IT Business AnalystsQBI Institute
The document discusses the objectives and importance of software testing. It aims to find undiscovered errors through executing test cases that have a high probability of uncovering issues. Testing represents the final review of specifications, design, and code to ensure software quality. Defects can arise due to bad communication, design, or coding. Effective testing principles include linking tests to requirements, planning tests early, applying the Pareto principle, starting small and progressing to larger tests, recognizing exhaustive testing is impossible, and having an independent third party conduct testing.
The document discusses important qualities of effective labor officers and company representatives. It states that they must know priorities and direction, clear obstacles, protect time for themselves and others, act with urgency, think of possibilities instead of constraints, take initiative, and be treated with respect. They should start their day early and represent the company.
Sally the BA is assigned the Project Part IQBI Institute
Sally has been assigned as the new business analyst for the Eureka project. Her boss Harry informs her that she will be moving to the client site within the next two weeks to initiate the project. Harry advises Sally to continuously engage the customer to ensure their satisfaction, meet project objectives aligned with business objectives, and maintain a good working relationship. Sally lists tasks for herself, including calling her mom to share the news, calling Edward for project details, obtaining the request for proposal and contract from Harry to understand project details, and emailing the project champion Jim to request a video conference.
The document discusses activity diagrams and their components. It describes the initial and final nodes that mark the beginning and end of an activity. It also discusses flow final nodes, activities, activity partitions, decision nodes, merge nodes, fork nodes, and join nodes. Examples of activity diagrams for ATM machine operation and a patient visiting a diabetes hospital are provided. The document concludes by proposing an activity diagram for an elective subject enrollment system.
This document contains 10 repetitions of the URL www.qbi.in. The repeated URL suggests this short text aims to promote awareness of or drive traffic to a website located at www.qbi.in, but provides no other context or information.
Steve Haines is the product manager at QBI and is responsible for design and development, marketing, R&D, manufacturing, service, packaging, distribution, finance, human resources, regulatory legal and standards, and intellectual property protection. QBI offers their software both as a service on demand with pay as you go licensing, which is available for free, and can be deployed either on the cloud or on customer premises.
UML- Class Diagrams, State Machine DiagramsQBI Institute
The document discusses class diagrams in UML. It begins by listing some common tools for creating UML diagrams. It then states that class diagrams are important for business analysts to understand system building blocks. The rest of the document describes the key elements of a class diagram - classes have names, attributes, and operations. It provides examples of class names and explains how attributes can have default values, derived values, and multiplicity. The document concludes by noting that understanding class diagrams helps business analysts in requirements analysis.
This document contains the URL www.qbi.in repeated multiple times without any other text or context. The URL www.qbi.in is listed over 15 times throughout the document. The document expresses thanks at the end.
Leadership Skills for IT Business AnalystsQBI Institute
Leadership skills are essential for IT Business Analysts on the Job. This presentation which is part of IT Business Analyst Associate Level Certification Program from QBI Institute covers the same.
Associate Level Business Analyst Program LecturesQBI Institute
The document outlines the lecture lists for an Associate Level Business Analyst Certification Program which includes 4 modules - Business Analysis Fundamentals, Business Analysis Practices and Procedures, Requirements Engineering and Management, and Communication Project and Leadership Skills for Business Analysts. Each module covers various topics related to business analysis with assigned number of lectures and hours. The certification program aims to provide comprehensive training to become an associate level business analyst.
This is presentation about Unified Modelling Language which is not the Lingua Franca of the Business Analyst Profession. Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Subject Matter Experts need to master the art and science of UML to succeed in todays agile world of Information Technology. QBI Institute provides IT Business Analyst Programs. QBI professionals are known for their UML expertise
IT Business Analyst Certification Program - Distance LearningQBI Institute
This is presentation about IT Business Analyst Certification program from QBI Institute. This Program is delivered via a Live Web Based Classroom. Working Professionals are welcome to join this program from any where on the globe.
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Requirements Validation and Management is an Essential Business Analyst Activitiy. This presentation from QBI Institute is part of Software Business Analyst Certification Program
Navigating Post-Quantum Blockchain: Resilient Cryptography in Quantum Threatsanupriti
In the rapidly evolving landscape of blockchain technology, the advent of quantum computing poses unprecedented challenges to traditional cryptographic methods. As quantum computing capabilities advance, the vulnerabilities of current cryptographic standards become increasingly apparent.
This presentation, "Navigating Post-Quantum Blockchain: Resilient Cryptography in Quantum Threats," explores the intersection of blockchain technology and quantum computing. It delves into the urgent need for resilient cryptographic solutions that can withstand the computational power of quantum adversaries.
Key topics covered include:
An overview of quantum computing and its implications for blockchain security.
Current cryptographic standards and their vulnerabilities in the face of quantum threats.
Emerging post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and their applicability to blockchain systems.
Case studies and real-world implications of quantum-resistant blockchain implementations.
Strategies for integrating post-quantum cryptography into existing blockchain frameworks.
Join us as we navigate the complexities of securing blockchain networks in a quantum-enabled future. Gain insights into the latest advancements and best practices for safeguarding data integrity and privacy in the era of quantum threats.
Hire a private investigator to get cell phone recordsHackersList
Learn what private investigators can legally do to obtain cell phone records and track phones, plus ethical considerations and alternatives for addressing privacy concerns.
Performance Budgets for the Real World by Tammy EvertsScyllaDB
Performance budgets have been around for more than ten years. Over those years, we’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and what we need to improve. In this session, Tammy revisits old assumptions about performance budgets and offers some new best practices. Topics include:
• Understanding performance budgets vs. performance goals
• Aligning budgets with user experience
• Pros and cons of Core Web Vitals
• How to stay on top of your budgets to fight regressions
How Netflix Builds High Performance Applications at Global ScaleScyllaDB
We all want to build applications that are blazingly fast. We also want to scale them to users all over the world. Can the two happen together? Can users in the slowest of environments also get a fast experience? Learn how we do this at Netflix: how we understand every user's needs and preferences and build high performance applications that work for every user, every time.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/07/intels-approach-to-operationalizing-ai-in-the-manufacturing-sector-a-presentation-from-intel/
Tara Thimmanaik, AI Systems and Solutions Architect at Intel, presents the “Intel’s Approach to Operationalizing AI in the Manufacturing Sector,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
AI at the edge is powering a revolution in industrial IoT, from real-time processing and analytics that drive greater efficiency and learning to predictive maintenance. Intel is focused on developing tools and assets to help domain experts operationalize AI-based solutions in their fields of expertise.
In this talk, Thimmanaik explains how Intel’s software platforms simplify labor-intensive data upload, labeling, training, model optimization and retraining tasks. She shows how domain experts can quickly build vision models for a wide range of processes—detecting defective parts on a production line, reducing downtime on the factory floor, automating inventory management and other digitization and automation projects. And she introduces Intel-provided edge computing assets that empower faster localized insights and decisions, improving labor productivity through easy-to-use AI tools that democratize AI.
GDG Cloud Southlake #34: Neatsun Ziv: Automating AppsecJames Anderson
The lecture titled "Automating AppSec" delves into the critical challenges associated with manual application security (AppSec) processes and outlines strategic approaches for incorporating automation to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. The lecture is structured to highlight the inherent difficulties in traditional AppSec practices, emphasizing the labor-intensive triage of issues, the complexity of identifying responsible owners for security flaws, and the challenges of implementing security checks within CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, it provides actionable insights on automating these processes to not only mitigate these pains but also to enable a more proactive and scalable security posture within development cycles.
The Pains of Manual AppSec:
This section will explore the time-consuming and error-prone nature of manually triaging security issues, including the difficulty of prioritizing vulnerabilities based on their actual risk to the organization. It will also discuss the challenges in determining ownership for remediation tasks, a process often complicated by cross-functional teams and microservices architectures. Additionally, the inefficiencies of manual checks within CI/CD gates will be examined, highlighting how they can delay deployments and introduce security risks.
Automating CI/CD Gates:
Here, the focus shifts to the automation of security within the CI/CD pipelines. The lecture will cover methods to seamlessly integrate security tools that automatically scan for vulnerabilities as part of the build process, thereby ensuring that security is a core component of the development lifecycle. Strategies for configuring automated gates that can block or flag builds based on the severity of detected issues will be discussed, ensuring that only secure code progresses through the pipeline.
Triaging Issues with Automation:
This segment addresses how automation can be leveraged to intelligently triage and prioritize security issues. It will cover technologies and methodologies for automatically assessing the context and potential impact of vulnerabilities, facilitating quicker and more accurate decision-making. The use of automated alerting and reporting mechanisms to ensure the right stakeholders are informed in a timely manner will also be discussed.
Identifying Ownership Automatically:
Automating the process of identifying who owns the responsibility for fixing specific security issues is critical for efficient remediation. This part of the lecture will explore tools and practices for mapping vulnerabilities to code owners, leveraging version control and project management tools.
Three Tips to Scale the Shift Left Program:
Finally, the lecture will offer three practical tips for organizations looking to scale their Shift Left security programs. These will include recommendations on fostering a security culture within development teams, employing DevSecOps principles to integrate security throughout the development
The DealBook is our annual overview of the Ukrainian tech investment industry. This edition comprehensively covers the full year 2023 and the first deals of 2024.
In this follow-up session on knowledge and prompt engineering, we will explore structured prompting, chain of thought prompting, iterative prompting, prompt optimization, emotional language prompts, and the inclusion of user signals and industry-specific data to enhance LLM performance.
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NLP (Neurolingusitic Programming for IT Professionals)
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NLP to build rapport, avoid ambiguity &
achieve results
(esp for S/W pros)
An overview
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About the trainer
The trainer, Mr. Ashutosh ShriPrakash Pandey has 15
years of rich national and international experience in
MNCs & Indian Companies, encompassing the entire
gamut of HR Function, issues concerning Recruitments,
Quality Management systems, T&D, M&A,
Organizational culture & OD interventions etc.
To his credit are several successful projects &
operational execution wherein he has used various tools
like MBTI, NLP, FIRO-B , DISC, TQM etc, to get the best
out of the people, resulting in a seamless integration of
people, process & technology.
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Agenda
In this curtain raiser session, we will discuss the following:-
• What is NLP
• Why build rapport, how to know 2 people are in rapport, how
to build rapport
• Types of Representational systems, how to assess these in you
& others
• Pacing , its practice for rapport building
• How NLP & S/W are related, attributes of a professional
• Attibutes vs. States, how to convert attributes into states
• Using meta model to identify ambiguity & achieve results
• Summary , followed by Q & As..
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Review: Which of the following is
accurate about communication?
A. 15% words, 30% tone, 55% body language
B. 7% words, 63% tone, 30% body language
C. 15% words, 62% tone, 23% body language
D. 7% words, 38% tone, 55% body language
E. I don’t know!
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What is NLP?
• Neurolinguistic
Programming
– Communication
– Personal development
– Modeling
• Developed by-
John Grinder & Richard
Bandler
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How is NLP advertised?
• Improve your relationships,
• master rapport with anyone in moments,
• sell anything to anyone, and do it ethically,
• gain more flexibility,
• cure any phobia in seconds,
• get more of what you really want,
• Create instant motivation and confidence
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Neuro Linguistic Programming
Neuro
Nervous system through
which experience is
received and processed “…the study of
through the five senses. the structure of
subjective
experience.”
Linguistic Programming
Language and nonverbal The ability to organize our
communication systems communication and
through which neural neurological systems to
representations are coded, achieve specific desired
ordered, and given meaning. goals and results.
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Modelling
“The NLP modeling process involves finding out
about how the brain (“Neuro”) is operating by
analyzing language patterns (“Linguistic”) and non-
verbal communication. The results of this analysis
are then put into step-by-step strategies or
programs (“Programming”) that may be used to
transfer the skill to other people and areas of
application.”
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Is rapport important?
• “A loop of mutual influence.” M. Erickson
• Rapport is to communication what fuel is to a
car; without it, you get nowhere.
• Rapport is different from agreement—it is
being understood and regarded. People in
rapport may or may not agree on much of
anything.
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How do you know when two people
are in rapport?
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Building Rapport Using NLP
• Eye Accessing Cues
• Representational Systems
• Both help with: Pacing
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Eye Accessing Cues
• Tendencies, but
not always true
for every person
• Loiselle (1985)
C = constructed; R = remembered; d = digital
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• There are
exceptions!
– Cultural conditioning
– Near-term
memory
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Practice…
Which modality did this interviewee use most
frequently?
A. Visual constructed
B. Auditory constructed
C. Kinesthetic
D. Visual recall
E. Auditory recall
F. Auditory/Digital (internal dialogue)
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Representational Systems
• The map is not the territory.
• Four main representational systems
– Visual
– Auditory
– Kinesthetic
– Auditory/Digital
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What was your strongest preference?
A. Visual
B. Auditory
C. Kinesthetic
D. Auditory Digital
E. I had a tie with two or more
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Visual Characteristics
• Organized, neat, well-groomed.
• Use visualization for memory and decision making - often getting insights
about something.
• Are imaginative, may have difficulty putting their ideas in words.
• Speak faster than the general population.
• Prefer in-person interactions - to see the other person and his/her
reactions.
• Want to see or be shown concepts, ideas or how something is done.
• Want to see the big picture.
• May not remember what people have said or be confused with verbal
instructions.
– Maps/pictures are better
• Remember faces more easily than names.
• Be distracted by visual activity and less so by noise.
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Auditory Characteristics
• Aware of change in the tone of your voice
• Are responsive to certain tones of voice.
• Perceive and represent sequences
• Remember directions or instructions more easily.
• Learn by listening and asking questions.
• Enjoy discussions and prefer to communicate verbally.
• Talk through problems
– like someone to be a sounding board
• Need to be heard.
• Be easily distracted by noise.
• Tend to cross appendages when listening.
• May avoid eye contact when processing.
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Kinesthetic Characteristics
• Speak slower
• More sensitive to their bodies and their feelings
• Tend to respond to physical rewards and touching.
• Learn by doing, moving or touching.
• Dress/groom more for comfort than looks.
• Make decisions based on their feelings.
• Stand closer to other people than those with a visual
preference
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Auditory Digital Characteristics
• Need to make sense of the world, to figure things
out, to understand.
• Talk to themselves and carry on internal
conversations (sometimes with you!)
• Learn by working things out in their mind.
• Not spontaneous, like to think things through.
• Logic, facts and figures play keys roles in
decisions.
• Memorize by steps, procedures, sequences.
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Predicates
• One way to assess representational systems in others
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Time for practice!
Exercise #1: 2 minutes for each person
Describe your house to your partner using your
most PREFERRED modality
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Exercise #2
2 minutes for each person:
Describe your house to your partner using your
LEAST preferred modality
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Pause to Consider…
• How could you apply this in your job?
– 1 minute to reflect
– 2 minutes to share
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Rapport and Pacing
• Physiology
• Vocal qualities
• Words (predicates)
Representational systems!
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Pacing
• Observing (and pacing where applicable):
– Words they use (predicates).
– Eye movements (eye accessing cues, blink rate, etc.).
– Changes in skin color/tone.
– Breathing (fast, slow, deep, shallow).
– Voice quality (volume, tone).
– Posture/gestures.
– Facial expressions
– Changes in energy
• Mirroring vs. Matching
– Cross-matching
– Mismatching—useful in some situations!
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Let’s try it!
• Partner A: Imagine your are about to buy your
dream car. Now describe what you want in
your car in as much detail as possible.
• Partner B: Practice SUBTLE pacing.
Remember:
Respect is the key to building rapport
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Check in…
What was the main representational system
Person A used to describe their dream car
(person A, don’t tell person B)?
A. Visual
B. Auditory
C. Kinesthetic
D. Auditory digital
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Other ways to practice pacing
• Pace with someone on TV
• Practice with friends or family
– don’t tell them or they may feel self-conscious!
• Pace a person at a restaurant
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NLP and S/W are related
• Questioning • Literalism
• Modelling • Identify Ambiguity
• Communication • Honesty
• Effectiveness
• Attitude
• Synthesis Knowledge Systems
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The Three variables &
triple constraint
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Time Cost
Quality/Scope
People Process
Technology
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Exercise: Attributes of a S/W pro
Identify…
• Attributes or Qualities
• Eg- Descriptions of a tester
Eg:- Analytical, works within a
process/framework, follows SOPs,
deliverables vs intention, competencies vs.
Knowledge
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Attributes vs States
Attributes States
• Person ‘has’ • Person ‘feels’
• Context? • Context
• “IS” of identity State
• Behaviour
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Exercise: Convert attributes
into states
• Can you generate and feel those states in
yourself?
• Can you say things to other people to
generate those states? (Elicitation)
• When would those states be appropriate?
• Can you identify a time when you used
those states positively? Negatively?
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Meta-Model
• Identify Ambiguity Early
• Apply to the communication we give
• Apply to the system
• A Model of Analysis (Req, Spec, etc.)
• Apply to our beliefs and values about
testing
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Deep Surface
• Meta-Model based on transformational grammar
model
• Words affect experience
Surface
Deep Structure Structure
Surface
Primary Secondary Structure
Experienc Experienc Transformation
e e Surface
Sensory & Linguistic Structure
Emotional Derivation
Surface
Structure
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Nominalization
Simple Deletion
Cause and Effect
Comparative Deletion
Mind Reading Distortion Deletion
Lack of Referential Index
Complex Equivalence
Unspecified Verb
Lost Performative
Meta Model
Universal Quantifier
Modal Operators Generalization
Presuppositions
• Transformations (Distortion, Deletion,
Generalization) can create ambiguity
• Ambiguous statement:
– “The daily trade file must be processed in
under 5 seconds when the system starts up.”
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LP
CE
Effect Cause
"The daily trade file must be processed in under 5 seconds when the system starts up"
SD (1) MO UV (1) SD (2) SD (3) SD (4) UV (2)
• Processed by what? How?
• Daily trade file – contains what? From
where?
• 5 seconds – based on what?
• Starts up? How, When, How often?
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Rules A Limiting Counter, challenge
Challenge and get more for Generalisation
limits Identify exception
information on the
limits Modal Universal "I develop and
"I can't run Operators Quantifier I don't hate you"
these tests" "All developers
"What stops you?" hate testers" "*ALL* developers?"
"Microsoft have 2 testers
"I shouldn't
"What would for every developer,
test this."
happen if you did?" that must be hate city"
Generalization
What is unstated
and has to be true
Presuppositions for the statement to
be true Challenge, test
•Universal Quantifier: The system will always process the daily trade file at start
up. Even if the system is restarted in the middle of the day?
•Modal Operator: The system might ask the user to save the file.
•Presuppositions: Daily trade file exists. What if it doesn’t? The daily trade file can
be processed. What if it is corrupt?
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Identify Generalizations
• “Only admin users can delete records”
• “All records must be validated by the front
end when they are amended”
• “All test cases must be scripted”
Modal Operators,
Universal Quantifiers
Presuppositions
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Missing
Reference Element
Identify Point missing from
Comparison Comparative surface Recover
Deletion Simple structure Deleted
"This system
is rubbish" Deletion Information
"Compared "The system is "fail how?"
to What?" going to fail" "Which
system?"
Missing Deletion
Recover Process
Details Unspecified
Missing Lack of Recover
Noun
Process Unspecified Referential Noun
"How are Verb Index "They have a
you testing?" poor process"
"What kind of "I'm testing"
"Who are
testing are you they?"
doing?"
• Deletion can cause special cases not to be
identified
• Deep Structure deletions identified through
presupposition analysis & model building
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Identify Deletions
• “This system must be the fastest on the
market”
• “The admin user will amend user details”
Simple,
Comparative,
Verb,
Noun (referential index)
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Stimulus X
Causes Process
& Response Convert noun
Y as noun
More information Cause to process
about the causality and Nominalization
"I'm going
Effect to test"
"What kind of
"Bad specifications testing are you
make me angry" going to do?"
"How specifically
does a bad
specification make
you angry?" A Value Identify Source
Judgement
Lost Identify Criteria
Performative
2 unrelated Distortion "It is wrong
to test without
statements
writing test
Check represented scripts" "According to
validity as equivalent Whom?"
of
equivalence
Complex
"They don't know how to
develop software,
Equivalence Claim to
the requirements are never knowledge Identify source
signed off."
Mind of claim
"If the requirements Reading
were signed off "They hate
does that mean they testers" "How do you
would know how to Know?"
develop software?"
• Distortions can taint beliefs and attitudes
• Good source of resistance in communication
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Identify Distortions
• “Obviously, developers deliver code late
because they don’t give the testers any
respect.”
• “When developers don’t do any unit testing it
makes testers really annoyed”
Cause Effect
Complex Equivalence
Lost Performative
Mind Reading
Nominalization
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Meta-Model Questioning Exercise
• Work in 3s
• Person 1 ask Person 2 to describe something e.g.:
– their testing project,
– their application under test,
– what testing is
• Person 2 responds, Person 1 listens, Person 1
analyses response based on the Meta-Model and
asks a follow on question based on the Meta-
Model analysis, repeat
• Person 3 takes a meta position for later review
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Meta-Model for Influence
• Embedded Commands
• Presuppositions
• Conversational Postulates
• Deliberate use of ambiguity
– use their deep structure
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Meta-Model usage Guidelines
• Rapport
• What do you want to know?
• Stop at some point
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Meta-Model Repeated
• Identify Ambiguity Early
• Apply to the communication we give
• Apply to the system
• A Model of Analysis (Req, Spec, etc.)
• Apply to our beliefs and values about
testing
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Recommended Books
• Structure of magic vols 1 & 2
– (Bandler and Grinder)
• Modeling with NLP
– (Robert Dilts)
52
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The takeaways!
• Define NLP, its whys & how’s
• How NLP & S/W are related, attributes of a
professional
• Why & how build rapport & effective
communication
• Using Representational systems, pacing,
converting attributes into states, using meta
model(s) to identify ambiguity & achieve
results
Editor's Notes
From Wikipedia: Neuro-linguistic programming ( NLP ) is an interpersonal communications model and an alternative approach to psychotherapy [1] based on the subjective study of language, communication and personal change. [2] It was co-founded by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in the 1970s as a method of personal change and communications. The focus was pragmatic, modeling three successful psychotherapists, Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls. The theoretical foundations borrow from work related to the these models and disciplines related to communication and the mind, including psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and occupational therapy. Also from Wikipedia: Labouchere states that "NLP has a very pragmatic, applied focus on what is helpful, what works and how to replicate it (Bandler & Grinder, 1990). While NLP draws on and shares common ground with ‘mainstream’ cognitive psychology, it has, from its inception, continued to develop, refine, and apply its own unique range of concepts, models and techniques."[56] Partridge (2003) states that "NLP may be best thought of as a system of psychology concerned with the self development of the human being" and "It is concerned with the function of belief rather than its nature. It is not concerned whether a belief is true or not, but whether it is empowering or disempowering". Similarly, Stephen J. Hunt states that NLP "is a technique rather than an organised religion and is used by several different human potential movements".[57] David V. Barrett (2001) also describes NLP as a technique or series of techniques, or a process. He states that that "the balance comes down against it being labeled as a religion".[58]
Summary of Modelling: What was ‘that’? What is ‘This’? What are the differences? What ‘has’ to be there. What else ‘could’ be there.
Loiselle at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada (1985) selected 44 average spellers, as determined by their pretest on memorising nonsense words. Instructions in the experiment, where the 44 were required to memorise another set of nonsense words, were given on a computer screen. The 44 were divided into four subgroups for the experiment. Group One were told to visualise each word in the test, while looking up to the left. Group Two were told to visualise each word while looking down to the right. Group Three were told to visualise each word (no reference to eye position). Group Four were simply told to study the word in order to learn it. The results on testing immediately after were that Group One (who did acually look up left more than the others, but took the same amount of time) increased their success in spelling by 25%, Group Two worsened their spelling by 15%, Group Three increased their success by 10%, and Group Four scored the same as previously. This strongly suggests that looking up left (Visual Recall in NLP terms) enhances spelling, and is twice as effective as simply teaching students to picture the words. Furthermore, looking down right (Kinesthetic in NLP terms) damages the ability to visualise the words. Interestingly, in a final test some time later (testing retention), the scores of Group One remained constant, while the scores of the control group, Group Four, plummeted a further 15%, a drop which was consistent with standard learning studies. The resultant difference in memory of the words for these two groups was 61% . Thomas Malloy at the University of Utah Department of Psychology completed a study with three groups of spellers, again pretested to find average spellers. One group were taught the NLP spelling strategy of looking up and to the left, one group were taught a strategy of sounding out by phonetics and auditory rules, and one were given no new information. In this study the tests involved actual words. Again, the visual recall spellers improved 25%, and had near 100% retention one week later. The group taught the auditory strategies improved 15% but this score dropped 5% in the following week. The control group showed no improvement. These studies support the NLP Spelling Strategy specifically, and the NLP notion of Eye Accessing Cues, Sensory system use, and Strategies in general.They are reported in: Dilts, R. and Epstein, T., Dynamic Learning, Meta, Capitola, California,1995
Visual Remembered What is the colour of the shirt you wore yesterday? Which of your friends has the shortest hair? Visual Constructed What would your room look like if it were painted yellow with big purple circles? Can you imagine the top half of a tiger on the bottom half of an elephant? Auditory Remembered What does your best friend’s voice sound like? Which is louder, your door bell or your telephone? Auditory Constructed What will your voice sound like in 10 years? What would it sound like if you played your two favourite pieces of music at the same time? Auditory Digital What is something you continually tell yourself? What are your thoughts about this article? Kinesthetic What does it feel like to walk barefoot on a cool sandy beach? What does it feel like when you rub your fingers on sandpaper?
Often they will say they remember discussing something with you, when you actually did not have the conversation. They did, however, in their mind!
Politicians do it all the time with their clothing and their language!
AKA “the triple constraint,” conventional PM wisdom has it that gains on one side of the triangle usually require making concessions on the other two sides. This is generally true, unless it’s possible to improve the delivery process.
Words that we use affect experience What do different words about a system affect us to think? I’m Testing … [Name of Software] doesn’t mean much but gets you thinking in terms of the adverts, the feature set, what needs to be tested generically [Name of Software] v1.1 extensionalised – changes in this version, what needs to be tested specifically A System an integration of parts, interfaces, data syntax, system theory Software a thing which runs on an operating system, interfaces with hardware (disk), data semantics A solution for whom? What problem?
UQ – All, Every, Just, Only, None, Nobody, Never, Always MO – Possibility – Can’t, won’t, - Necessity – must, should, shouldn’t, ought, mustn’t Presuppositions : A in p(B), A in p(~B) Cause effect: Makes me, can’t help but Comp Equiv: Means that Nominalization: essentials of a process, discipline of software testing, effectiveness -ness
Teaching notes: “ Only admin users can delete records” Only (U), presuppositions: records exist, records can be created/amended? Other types of users exist Can (MO) – what if it read ‘should’ or ‘must’ “ All records are validated by the front end when they are amended” Use presuppositions to ask questions – 2 nd , 3 rd order presuppositions P – there is a frontend, is there a backend? Only on amendment, what about create? Are records only amended on the front end? U – All records (how many types?) Validated (unspecified verb) MO (must be) or what? What if invalid? “ All test cases must be scripted” P – test cases can be written in a non-scripted way (because of modal operator) When we identify modal operators (must), we can change them – should, could, might, need,
Teaching notes: “ This system must be the fastest on the market” – which part of the system?, compared to what? At doing what? How much faster? Which market? “ The admin user will amend user details”. - when? Amend how? Amend which details? What other users are there? Amend other admin users? Only admin users? What makes an admin user an admin user? Any other violations in the above sentences? [must] Lost performatives – according to whom?
Teacher notes: “ Developers deliver code late because they don’t respect the testers” MR how do they know the developers don’t respect testers C= [developers deliver code late] [developers don’t respect the testers] Nom - respect LP “Obviously,” obvious to whom? Other violations – generalisations – “{all} developers” “ When developers don’t do any unit coding I get really annoyed” MR – how do you know they don’t do any unit coding CE – if they did unit coding testers wouldn’t get annoyed? MR – how do you know testers get really annoyed? LP – who says? Other violsations – generalisations – which testers, UQ ‘don’t do any’ – so if they did a little bit, it would be ok => Comparative Deletion ‘How much is ok’? Unspec Verb – [unit testing]