How you onboard someone to your software development team can have lasting effects on their professional success, growth, and happiness, but many teams treat onboarding as an afterthought. With this talk, you will learn how to successfully onboard a junior software developer in three steps, with the goals of building …
As a software development manager, your responsibility is not to build features, but to build systems to support the people building the features. This talk will give some tips on using familiar tools and techniques from your time as a software engineer to help make management easier and more systematic.
It is very easy to get stuck in one way of doing things. This is as true of programming as it is of life. Although a programming paradigm represents a set of stylistic choices, it is much more than this: a programming paradigm also represents a way of thinking. Having …
We live in a deeply connected world. Technology impacts our everyday life in many ways. However, the solutions we create do not always reflect our society and the world we live in. We have problems in the software development domain. Let’s take a look at the lack of diversity in …
The goal of being able to build quality in software products from the get-go is something that many organizations are trying to achieve. However, the very definition of software quality is somewhat elusive which makes it difficult to agree upon the perceived level of quality in software products. Moreover, working …
As many peoples have a limited vision of the Agile software development approach that is synonym of the practice of Scrum, it is good to see a book dedicated to the programming side of Agile. The book wants to present the “trim tabs of software development”.
