Tuesday
Building Trust and Breaking Barriers (with LEGO!)
Presented by: Thomas Haver
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMLEGO(R) sets are fun to build, but who has ever attempted to build a set without looking at the instructions? In this workshop, attendees will form teams and attempt to build a LEGO(R) set without instructions. Through a series of iterative exercises that provide more product details, the teams will...
Room: Salon A/HTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewWednesday
Thursday
Are You Ready for a Senior Role?
Presented by: Jenny Bramble
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMMoving from being a mid level engineer a senior role can feel like a huge leap--especially when your new responsibilities aren't well defined. What does it mean to embrace a senior role? It's not just about experience and years on the job; it's an entire mindset shift. Jenny Bramble, Director of...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateWhat a global pandemic can tell you about better DevOps practices
Presented by: Jeremy Meiss
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMIn early 2020 a global pandemic set in motion events which none of us could predict. With anonymous data collected from 900k+ devs, 50K orgs, and 60m+ builds/mo we found some interesting insights into better DevOps practices. Since then, we've seen even more interesting activities happen, which shed...
Room: Indigo BayTrack: DevOpsFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateThe Elegance of “The Simplest Possible Thing”: Applying Simplicity Principles to Complex Problems
Presented by: Nate Berent-Spillson
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMSoftware development is complex work. Business requirements, platforms, and technology itself are all complex elements. Through all this complexity, software developers often try to create complex solutions that meet all the requirements at once. Similarly, when faced with a complex problem, they...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateFinding Your Flow With Kanban
Presented by: Jeremy Jarrell
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMMore and more teams are discovering that they're more productive and more effective with Kanban. Many of these teams who choose Kanban do so out of a desire to work in an agile way, but without the overhead of sprints. But, if your team has adopted Kanban simply because there are no sprints, then...
Room: Sagewood / ZebrawoodTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSabotage Productivity the CIA Way
Presented by: Matt Williams
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMIn 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual -- a guide for resistance forces to characterize simple sabotage, outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it. Ironically, many of the...
Room: Salon A/HTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: 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: ZambeziTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: 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 overview