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  1. Business model of indian IT services scenario is heavily dependent on "commodity IT worker" - cheap and easily replacable.
  2. How can you believe statistics presented in analyst's reports. Any instances of analyst's reports/predictions challenged?Anyone really cares
  3. Data collected through 1000 such surveys becomes matter of fact - future predications - "40% of IT firms investing automation tools"
  4. So what happens when IT vendors fillout Analyst surveys " pack the responses with lies, bloated #s, marketing pitch".
  5. Heard a mgr telling his colleague - filling an IDC survey on testing -"Make sure nmbers look good, write good abt practice." Full of lies
  6. Science as socially constructed - aims at buidlng trust not developing and nuturing skepticism http://bit.ly/1VeRbF
  7. So do not look for absolute rationality in decisions realted to testing, quality of software
  8. one implication of testing being considered as "socially constructed" is "at times decisions abt prodct are made on the basis of gut/emotns
  9. Knowledge acquired through science is believed to be "socially constructed" http://bit.ly/1VeRbF
  10. one meaning of socially constructed is "driven by faith, culture, emotions, at times irrational".
  11. What is the meaning of "investigation in socially constructed context" that is open ended ? or what are possible interpretations?
  12. A new difn of testing "Testing is an open-ended investigation embedded in a socially constructed context." - James Bach in #ordev talk.
  13. @curioustester But .. make no mistake - believing something is an absolute must. You might be wrong. You need to have a stand
  14. @curioustester Infleucing does not mean lose your thought. Letting ur trail of thought not getting lost by what we read is key.
  15. @curioustester Read extreeme polarities - James Bach and Rex Black or Cem Kaner and Watts Humphery or Michael Bolton and BJ Rollison
  16. @curioustester Use fictious characters ..@mheusser does it neatly... he introduced that to me.. check my recent post on http://bit.ly/4CoJNB
  17. @curioustester Yes .. others thoughts can (and will) influence your thinking in big way... but all of we write, talk - there is an influence
  18. writing about yourself is an easy way to experience what is writer's block. Try writing half a page, 1 page, 2 page, 3 page resume of urself
  19. Currently I struggling to reinvent a way of writing my resume in 2 pages. I am into writers block already.
  20. @curioustester Write in blocks ... chunks... not at one go. leave your mind to wonder... may be try drawing a picture about the topic