Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is a tester, (polyglot) programmer, speaker, author, conference designer, and a community facilitator. She is Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 and Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019.

In her session at SHIFT 2020, Maaret leads the discussion on what one can learn from breaking something in order to get it to work better. Is your company functioning well, but not 10/10 or even 9/10? Could it be that your perception is clouding your judgment? The only way to find out is by testing your hypotheses and attempting to falsify them. Get out of your comfort zone and break a few things so you can start reworking the basis.

Developing software and business might just have more in common than meets the eye.

Read Maaret’s text The Hacker Mindset or Breaking Something to Make It Work at SHIFT blog.

SHIFT’s climate partner Chooose has agreed to offset the speaker’s CO2 emissions for six months, including their participation to SHIFT 2020.