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

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1. From Journeyman to Master CodeOnTheBeach, 2013 Ovidiu Dimulescu @odimulescu speakerdeck.com/odimulescu
2. The opinions and views expressed in this talk are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of my employer.
3. Motivation
4. Motivation
5. Motivation
6. Motivation
7. Motivation Team Lead Manager System Engineer Consultant Entrepreneur Technical Sales Solution Architect Etc.
9. Challenge
10. Challenge
11. Challenge
12. Challenge 10,000 hours rule Dr. K. Anders Ericsson
13. Quality over quantity
14. Work smarter not harder
15. Challenge
16. Know what you need to know
18. Learning Avenues Direct User Groups Conferences Online materials Open Source Projects Writing / Speaking / Mentoring
19. “Those who teach learn most”
20. Challenge
21. WHY?
22. Questions more important then answers
23. 5 Whys - Root Cause Analysis - Eric Reis
24. Challenge
25. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ―Dalai Lama
26. You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior models. - Buckminster Fuller
27. Regret the things you did, rather then didn’t
28. Seek first to understand then to be understood ...
29. Culture - Trust
32. 32 Logging Metrics Performance Security Platform Beyond 127.0.0.1
33. 33 Application Platform OS Infrastructure Dev Ops DevOps Beyond 127.0.0.1
34. 34 Beyond ___________
35. 35 Async Programming Functional Programming Polyglot Programming Polyglot Persistence SOLID Design Patterns Testing xDD Technical
37. 37 Big picture, systems view Non-Technical Work, *ilities Organizational politics Lead by Influence Role not a Title Architecture
38. 38 Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist, While you were arguing whether the glass is half full or half empty, I ... The ...
39. 39 Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist: While you were arguing whether the glass is half full or half empty, I drank it. - Opportunist
40. 40 Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist, While you were arguing whether the glass is half full or half empty, I sold it. - Capitalist
41. 41 “It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.” - Denis Waitley
42. Questions ? Ovidiu Dimulescu @odimulescu speakerdeck.com/odimulescu
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