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From Journeyman to Master

From Journeyman to Master

Multidimensional dive into the technological, cultural and market challenges and opportunities around soft skills, career development, communication, culture, organization and certification in technology field

Ovidiu Dimulescu

August 17, 2013
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  1. From Journeyman to Master
    CodeOnTheBeach, 2013
    Ovidiu Dimulescu
    @odimulescu
    speakerdeck.com/odimulescu

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  2. The opinions and views expressed in this talk
    are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the
    opinions or views of my employer.

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  3. Motivation

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  4. Motivation

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  5. Motivation

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  6. Motivation

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  7. Motivation
    Team Lead
    Manager
    System Engineer
    Consultant
    Entrepreneur
    Technical Sales
    Solution Architect
    Etc.

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  9. Challenge

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  10. Challenge

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  11. Challenge

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  12. Challenge
    10,000 hours rule
    Dr. K. Anders Ericsson

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  13. Quality over quantity

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  14. Work smarter not harder

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  15. Challenge

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  16. Know what you need to know

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  18. Learning Avenues
    Direct
    User Groups
    Conferences
    Online materials
    Open Source Projects
    Writing / Speaking / Mentoring

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  19. “Those who teach learn most”

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  20. Challenge

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  21. WHY?

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  22. Questions more important then answers

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  23. 5 Whys - Root Cause Analysis
    - Eric Reis

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  24. Challenge

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  25. “If you think you are too small to
    make a difference, try sleeping
    with a mosquito.”
    ―Dalai Lama

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  26. You can't change anything by fighting or
    resisting it. You change something by
    making it obsolete through superior
    models.
    - Buckminster Fuller

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  27. Regret the things you did,
    rather then didn’t

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  28. Seek first to understand then to be
    understood ...

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  29. Culture - Trust

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  32. 32
    Logging
    Metrics
    Performance
    Security
    Platform
    Beyond 127.0.0.1

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    Application
    Platform
    OS
    Infrastructure
    Dev
    Ops
    DevOps
    Beyond 127.0.0.1

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  34. 34
    Beyond ___________

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  35. 35
    Async Programming
    Functional Programming
    Polyglot Programming
    Polyglot Persistence
    SOLID
    Design Patterns
    Testing
    xDD
    Technical

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    Big picture, systems view
    Non-Technical Work, *ilities
    Organizational politics
    Lead by Influence
    Role not a Title
    Architecture

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  38. 38
    Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist,
    While you were arguing whether the
    glass is half full or half empty, I ...
    The ...

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  39. 39
    Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist:
    While you were arguing whether the
    glass is half full or half empty, I drank it.
    - Opportunist

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  40. 40
    Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist,
    While you were arguing whether the
    glass is half full or half empty, I sold it.
    - Capitalist

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    “It's not what you are that holds you back, it's
    what you think you are not.”
    - Denis Waitley

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  42. Questions ?
    Ovidiu Dimulescu
    @odimulescu
    speakerdeck.com/odimulescu

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  43. Resources
    Pragmatic Programmer, by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas
    Productive Programmer, by Neal Ford
    Soft skills for IT Pros, by Tech Republic
    Design Patterns, by Eric Gramma & all
    Who doesn't believe in Magic, by Kate Matsudaira
    Operations Management, by Wikipedia
    Systems Thinking, by Wikipedia
    Who Needs an Architect, by Martin Fowler
    http://bredemeyer.com/
    DevOps and Cloud, by Matt Zimmerman
    The 5 Whys, by Eric Reis

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