Four day work week and design thinking

Ian and Ash talk about how Microsoft Japan trialled a 4 day working week, busting Ash's myths about Japanese working culture and why technology people should care about design thinking, even for test automation.

Show Notes

Links:

• Steamed Hams 
• Trial of Four Day Work Week at Microsoft Japan 
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
• On the Phenomenon of BS Jobs
•  Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing
• Don Norman: Rethinking Design Thinking
• Natasha Jen: Design Thinking is BS
• IBM Design Thinking Intro Course
• d School Design Thinking Process
• IBM Design Thinking Loop
• Agile inception deck

Creators & Guests

Host

Ash Winter

Tester and international speaker, loves to talk about testability. Along with a number of other community minded souls, one of the co-organisers of the Leeds Testing Atelier. Also co-author of the Team Guide to Software Testability.

Host

Ian Smith

Happiest when making stuff or making people laugh. Tech, and Design Thinking. Works as a fractional CTO, Innovation leader and occasionally an AI or web developer through my company, craftscale. I'm a FRSA.

What is What A Lot Of Things?

Ash and Ian talk about interesting Things from the tech industry that are on their minds.