Learn how to build customer-aligned, cross-functional teams from Alexander Grosse, ex-VP Eng at SoundCloud, now VP Eng at Issuu. He grew SoundCloud’s engineering team to over 100 people and in the process transformed how music is shared and discovered. He explains how to build teams around “customer-driven microservices” while encouraging …
Wendy Chisholm works for Microsoft where she is an an author, activist and project manager. In this keynote of the 2014 edition of the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, she talked about coming out as an introvert, a characteristic of many software developers.
Derick Bailey talks about the 5 stages of grief, as applied to software development. From denial to acceptance, Derick talks about the direct correlations between dealing with loss and how we deal with other human beings as software developers.
The first commandment of corporate politics – Cover Thine Ass – leads to so much wasted effort. This presentation will help you understand how to create options for software developers to let go of this education – and make way for wholehearted organisations. We deserve to love what we do.
In two parts, I’ll share the story of how I transformed into a hirable web developer in just under one year while highlighting the ways people helped me to get to that point. I hope you’ll come away with ideas how you can make a difference in your own community. …
Back in 2006, when Dave was helping Kevin Taylor get Obtiva started, they realized that in order to get to where they wanted to go, the standard hiring approach wasn’t going to work. They knew that they needed to grow talented developers at the same time as hiring them. They …
