Senior Crafters

My NewCrafts 2018 conference

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1. #NCRAFTSMEN #NCrafters Use this hashtag on Twitter
2. #NCRAFTERS @cyrdup •Senior Software architect at Société Générale •30 years of coding experience •NFluent principal maintainer •SG ‘Speaker Academy’ co-founder
3. #NCRAFTSMEN Endangered Species: Senior Craftsman
4. #NCRAFTSMEN Endangered Species: Senior Crafters The other important thing!
5. #NCRAFTERS Agenda •Senior Software Crafters are rare •A model for expertise •On-going crisis •How you can fix this
6. #NCRAFTERS Let’s talk demographics 35<40 30<35 25<30 20<25 15<20 10<15 5<10 <5
7. #NCRAFTERS Let’s talk demographics 20< 15<20 10<15 5<10 <5
8. #NCRAFTERS So what? Who needs expertise in obsolete stuff?
9. #NCRAFTERS An eternal newbie? •We are learners at heart
10. #NCRAFTERS NO CODE
11. #NCRAFTERS ‘Five stages’ model for expertise
12. #NCRAFTERS ‘We are in an opinion driven industry’ Jim Copine
13. #NCRAFTERS Do things • Learning the ropes • First code • Steps toward mastering a platform
14. #NCRAFTERS Do things right •Understanding the value of code quality •TDD, Refactoring, clean code, patterns
15. #NCRAFTERS Do the right things • Go beyond expressed requirements • BDD, agile/exploratory approach
16. #NCRAFTERS Tackle the right problem • Stop being distracted by the solutions, think problems first • DDD / Event Storming, Business Architecture
17. #NCRAFTERS Everything is connected • Identify the influence of systems, people, environment • Focus on feedback loops • Cynefin, SYSTEM THINKING
18. #NCRAFTERS A personal path #1 Do Things #2 Do Things Right #3 Do Right Thing #4 Tackle Right #5 Systems
19. #NCRAFTERS Why are they important?
20. #NCRAFTERS A crisis is looming on us
21. #NCRAFTERS we are trade of youngster!
22. #NCRAFTERS Software destroys •Knight Capital •Midas •Ariane 5, Mars Polar Lander…
23. #NCRAFTERS Software cheats •Volkswagen •Uber
24. #NCRAFTERS Software kills •Toyota ETC •Therac 25 •Chinook crash (Mull of Kintyre)
25. #NCRAFTERS 50 Years of crisis
26. #NCRAFTERS ‘To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.’ M.T. Cicero
27. #NCRAFTERS Software community must be a learning organization
28. #NCRAFTERS ‘Learning is the bottleneck’ A. Brandolini
29. #NCRAFTERS We need more Teachers/Mentors/ Coaches
30. #NCRAFTERS
31. #NCRAFTERS Remember the 5 Stages
32. #NCRAFTERS #1 master of code •Remember your firs steps •Stay humble •Learn technologies •Pair with others •Enjoy
33. #NCRAFTERS #2…#5 •Talk about your experience, teach others •Stay humble •Learn non technical stuff •business/users oriented •practices/processes/methods
34. #NCRAFTERS You should do more!
35. Some work ahead
36. #NCRAFTERS Dupdob’s 10 Mountains
37. #NCRAFTERS #1 Ethics
38. #2 Performance Hints
39. #3 Testing
40. #4 Diversity
41. #NCRAFTERS #5 Documentation
42. #6 Roles and jobs
43. #NCRAFTERS #7 Real time feedback
44. #8 NIH Syndrom
45. #9 Scientific approach
46. #NCRAFTERS #10 Deliberate complexity
47. #NCRAFTERS Ideas •Find someone to mentor or coach •Organize a BBL •Prepare a conference •Contribute to OSS projects that support innovative practices •Read,NON.TECHNICAL.PAPERS /BOOKS •Actively support diversity •Learn IT history •Fight back NIH •Pick a problem and stick to it
48. #NCRAFTERS ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ MAHATMA GANDHI
49. #NCRAFTERS Recap Senior Software crafters are rare The five stages model The real software crisis Challenges ahead
50. #NCRAFTERS What will YOU do?
51. #NCRAFTERS THANK YOU TWITTER: @cyrdup NFluent N-FLUENT.NET blog many-cores.com
52. #NCRAFTERS Opinions
53. #NCRAFTERS • Human vs Computers (book by Gojko Adjic) • The Future of Programming (talk by Robert CMartin) • What went wrong with the IT industry (talk by Jim Coplien) • Occupations in Information Technology (US census, https://www.census.gov/library/ publications/2016/acs/acs-35.html) • 35 years of experience and x00s of interviews • Informal Twiter survey