what makes it tick?
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Presentation at AIESEC Lotus IT Education conference, 24 May 2013. Highlighting challenges of IT field, what makes one a decent IT professional and successful education initiatives available.TRANSCRIPT
What makes IT tick?
Aleksejs Truhans @ AIESEC Lotus, 2013.05.24
Slides published at http://www.slideshare.net/AleksejsTruhans
Challenges and motivations in IT field.
What makes you a star IT professional?
IT education: successful experiences and opportunities.
What makes IT tick?
Money?Software?Hardware?
http://www.replicatedtypo.com/
The environment
http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/
We work hard...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway
http://brucesmideastsoundbites.blogspot.com/2009/03/down-drain-pouring-money-down.html
Some of our work goes down the drain
Grit, stamina,
10000 hours...
By Simon Baker, http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2007/11/xpday7-why-do-agile-projects-fail
We don't know the future.
http://community.humanityhealing.net/group/toolsforshiftingperspective/forum/topics/is-what-you-see-real-change-your-per-ception-change-your-life
Our perception changes...
http://www.tnp.sg/picture/big-picture-week-12-finalist-5
People change...
http://vxside.deviantart.com/art/4-seasons-81436429
So does the environment.
➲Simplicity➲Discipline➲Value ➲Reflection➲Beyond rules and roles
Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:
That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.
Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan
Challenges
Infinite “almost ready” state
We lie to ourselves
➲ Customers will understand...➲ We will fix it in the next release...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tribesports/8434409743/
http://www.freepik.com/
Illusion of simplicity
From Douglas Crockford's JSMin license
Becoming a star
We learn, analyze, invent,
communicate, make decisions...
FIXME: star
http://sirenphoenix10.deviantart.com/art/You-re-a-star-356167722
Communication,collaboration,
lifelong learning...
http://praguestepchild.blogspot.com/2011/02/pride-of-workmanship.html
Professionalism...
http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2010/05/it-works-on-my-machine.html
Responsibility...
http://alvar-extra.a-blast.org/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons
/http://uphilldowndale.files.wordpress.com/
Image from Wikimedia
Learning opportunities
www.ldn.lv
ldn.lv & agile-latvia.org
600 200
http://www.meetup.com/Latvian-Developers-Network/events/109220132/
www.agile-latvia.org
User stories workshops– May 23rd, 2013
– May 30st, 2013
– Jun 06th, 2013
ldn.lv
Coding dojos, code retreats and workshops– Past: Erlang, Haskell, Google Go,
Javascript, Clojure
– Android – Jun 15th, 2013
Wildcard conference – Sep 13, 2013
Everyone's invited!
Tracks: ● Engineering● Databases● Testing● Web + Mobile● Agile + DevOps
http://wildcardconf.com/ @WildcardConf
Progmeistars.lv
Java 1 – Java and OOP fundamentals
Java 2 – Web development practice
Java 3 – Java Professional
http://www.javaguru.lv
http://www.javaguru.lv
http://dossee-tsi.tumblr.com/
ERASMUS IP
http://www.facebook.com/promandWSG
https://github.com/silkeostermann/iCube
IP DOSSEE - Open Source
http://www.slideshare.net/dimituri/ip-dossee-2011-team-6
Interactive Whiteboard
Thank you!
Some useful links
➲ “Economics of Software Design” by J.B.Rainsberger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HecgbghFTk
➲ http://articles.jbrains.ca/GettingStartedWithGettingThingsDone.pdf
➲ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline/
➲ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/
➲ http://agileee.org/2011/07/15/keynote-the-extreme-decade/
➲ http://agileee.org/2011/07/14/keynote-effective-software-develop-ment-in-the-21st-century-the-new-face-of-software-engineering/