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
   

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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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    Logging
    Metrics
    Performance
    Security
    Platform
    Beyond 127.0.0.1
    

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33. 33
    Application
    Platform
    OS
    Infrastructure
    Dev
    Ops
    DevOps
    Beyond 127.0.0.1
    

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34. 34
    Beyond ___________
    

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

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    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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    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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