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Leadership is Not Management, Expectations Versus Reality.
Presented by: Stacie Bacon
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMMoving from the role of a software engineer to a technology leader is both a rewarding and challenging experience. In this session, I will share helpful tips, strategies, resources, and insights regarding the shift into leadership as I pull back the curtain on my journey going from expert doer to...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewBuilding rugged DevOps pipelines with GitHub Actions
Presented by: Brian Gorman
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMThis session dives into using GitHub actions to build out robust DevOps pipelines. In the session, we'll implement an architecture to build a temporary dev environment, and then push the code changes through the pipeline to an end release into production. In addition to just getting the CI/CD...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: DevOpsFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediatePromoted From Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn't Tell Me
Presented by: Yishai Beeri
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMThree years into my software engineering career (that I was loving), a freight train hit me. I was promoted to dev team lead. This is a common trend in the engineering world - where many times the sole paths to success for excellent engineers are through management paths. However, the skills that...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewDungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases
Presented by: Guy Royse
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMAre you an adventurer? Do you want gold? Experience? Levels? Of course you do! And where do you get these things? The dungeon, where else? That wonderful container of all things adventurous! But, unfortunately, dungeons aren't setup for the convenience of adventurers who wish to extract these fine...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewVerbs, Not Nouns: Writing Documentation Users Want to Read
Presented by: Brian MacDonald
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMDocumentation should be complete and comprehensive, but that doesn't mean it has to be dull and boring. Engaging documentation focuses on what your users want to do, the tasks they're trying to accomplish, the problems they want to solve. Writing documentation with the focus on your user, instead of...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Software QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFailing Successfully
Presented by: Cassandra Faris
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMFailure is normal. It’s so normal that many software development teams encourage people to fail and fail fast. Failure is also scary. It makes us feel vulnerable. We may even worry that our jobs, relationships, or goals are on the line. Yet we hear countless stories of people turning failure into...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewBetter Interviews, Better Work
Presented by: John Lange
Time: Thursday 4:45 PM - 5:45 PMBeing an interviewer for technical jobs is hard. Checking for technical competency can feel impossible. Asking questions that start with "tell me about a time when" can feel like it has no value. And for many people giving interviews, there is no training; you're left to figure it out on your...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateFriday
Tribal Knowledge in Agile Teams
Presented by: Jeffrey Miller
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMLet's face it. We don't communicate well, and we document even less. Is it possible to wield information well in an Agile software team? Yes, it is! With consideration, change, and commitment to doing your work differently, it is possible to have relevant and vibrant knowledge resources in an...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSo your company is now remote? How to smoothly onboard your new developers remotely
Presented by: Brittney Braxton
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMDue to the 2020 Pandemic, many companies were thrown into the world of remote working when they may have been previously very cautious and averse to embracing it. Some companies saw this new format as valuable for the business and stuck with it. Unfortunately, we cannot create a positive experience...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewLet’s Build a VR Game! Oculus Quest 2 + Unity + C#
Presented by: Lance Larsen
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Oculus Quest 2 has sold over 8 MILLION devices so far and is projected to sell 18-20 MILLION next year! For the first time VR has broken through the early adopter crowd and is increasingly becoming a mainstream consumer gaming and production device! What does that mean for you? Well you now...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: HardwareFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewIntroduction to CSS Grid
Presented by: Kara Luton
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMWhen it comes to building responsive web layouts we’ve used tables, floats and Flexbox. Now there’s CSS Grid. In this talk, we’ll go over what differentiates it from other techniques and why it’s completely changing the game. Through code examples and demos, you’ll walk out of this talk...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: UI/DesignFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewYou’re Not Just Tired: The Psychology of Burnout
Presented by: Arthur Doler
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PMAfter the events of the last year, burnout has been on everyone’s minds. Are you feeling nostalgia for the days when your job wasn’t such a hassle? Do you find yourself struggling to care about your job… or anything at all? You may be wrestling with burnout.. But what exactly IS burnout? If...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSafely Evolving Legacy Code
Presented by: Scott Sauber
Time: Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMA new ticket comes in. It's for "that app." You know the one. The one nobody wants to touch, because the code is a mess and yet the application is business critical. In this talk, the fancy technologies will be put to the side, and instead the the reality most people live in will be acknowledged....
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Software QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview