10 years of mistakes and lessons learned

In March of 2015, Jeff Coburn delivered an Ignite talk to the 2015 Non-Profit Technology Conference. here are the slides.

Transcript

1. Ten Years of Mistakes and Lessons Learned: ! The Greatest Hits! Jeff Coburn @Coburnicus Senior Web Services Manager! Institute For Community Inclusion! School for Global Inclusion and Social Development! University of Massachusetts Boston! !
3. I ♥ mistakes?!
5. -Me, browsing monster.com in 2002! “Hmmm perhaps this job at a non-profit could be a good fit?” !
6. ! “Please kill me.”! —Me, two years later.! “Wordpress outputs crappy HTML. I’ll code my own CMS”! —Me, in 2004!
7. —Me, prior to website launch! “We’ll just support everything above IE9.”!
8. -Me <sob>! “I haven’t tested the site on Android browsers, but I’m sure it’s fine.” !
9. -Me, 6000 times.! “I’ll just edit the code on the live site.”!
10. “That code is hot garbage. Who wrote that?”!
11. The painkiller incident!
12. </mistakes>!
13. Digital Cock-ups™!
14. bugs! ! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻!
15. Failures to! Understand ! Catastrophes! Keeping ! Us from! Preforming! Sufficiently !
16. cockups.txt™! Track & Review !
17. Track!
18. Review!
19. Findings!
20. Mistakes ! =! Teaching Moments!
21. ! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ !