Software testing is complex – and is about much more than technical knowledge. The testing workshops run by Ergon will teach you how to appraise risks and avoid wishful thinking, how to determine the limits of the insights gained and how to handle uncertainty, so you can get the most out of the testing process.
Your goals
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Gain insights: systematically acquire new knowledge at an early stage and avoid costly solutions.
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Professionalise: understand testing as a reflection-based, justifiable knowledge process and learn methodologies for using it in a specific context.
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Learn systemically: develop skills for identifying, analysing and visualising systemic connections and emerging patterns within a testing context.
Our software testing workshops
Handling risk in software testing
Testing is learning – and it protects you from painful lessons. Handling risks entails flagging uncertainty, scrutinising models, understanding contexts and discovering our knowledge limits.
Software testing and self-deception
A radically honest workshop on self-deception in the testing process: we break down routines, reveal wishful thinking and develop responsibility for knowledge acquisition.
Collaboration within the IT team
Side by side, we learn how to make teamwork a success in IT: goodbye blame – hello trust, openness and responsibility. For teams that create real value.
Lots of models. Even more truths.
A workshop about diverse thinking: how using a range of models helps to generate a better understanding of systems. And why truth is not a goal, but a process.
Staying composed in challenging conversations
Maintaining your ability to communicate and act, putting across your concerns clearly and respectfully – even in a crisis: conscious communication is the key to a successful testing process.
Management skills in testing
Being a manager is about decisions, responsibility and growth that often go unrecognised. The workshop encourages a realistic, responsible notion of management in testing and beyond.
Making decisions amid uncertainty
What if I need to make a decision without sound data to base it on? The workshop teaches decision-making skills like probabilistic thinking, option appraisal and error recognition.
Software testing workshops from Ergon: how you benefit
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Gain early insights instead of fixing costly mistakes down the line.
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Shed light on implicit assumptions to avoid misunderstandings.
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Reflect on mental models to identify systemic errors at an early stage.
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Develop a professional testing practice and act in a justified, context-aware manner.
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Identify and utilise systemic patterns for a holistic understanding of testing.
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Use uncertainty productively to gain knowledge in complex situations.
Who are the testing workshops designed for?
The testing workshops are perfect if you:
- do not just want to know whether something works, but why – or why not.
- see testing as a way to gain insights, not as a tick-box check.
- actively engage with uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
- are ready to take epistemic responsibility.
- follow an interdisciplinary approach, bridging technology, language, philosophy and organisational skills.
- find frustration motivating, not discouraging.
We look forward to hearing from you
We are pleased that you are interested in our services. Do you have any questions or a specific project idea? Tell us about it – with no commitment on your part. Our experts will contact you as soon as possible.
