Video & Slides: Functioning Among Humans (Heart of Clojure)

Back in July I had a great time at Heart of Clojure – the first conference who finally allowed me to share my thoughts on the importance of people skills and important people skills. And they were so nice to even record it, so here it is!

Slides can be viewed here, on speaker deck, slideshare and PDF.

 

sketch notes by my friend @malweene

Abstract

In the development world most people are striving for technical excellence: better code, faster run times, more convenient interfaces, better databases… But is that really what helps us create better software?

In the end software development is done by groups of people creating products together. To do that communication and collaboration are essential. You can be the best programmer ever, but if you can’t efficiently work with others what good does it do you?

This talk will introduce you to relevant, easy to grasp concepts of collaboration and communication as well as give you food for thought.

Slides: Functioning Among Humans (RUG-B)

In a trial run for Heart of Clojure I gave my talk Functioning Among Humans yesterday at RUG::B. It covers topics very close to my heart and is a talk I wanted to give forever. It’s sort of a “best of” soft/social/people skills that I learned going back all the way to high school and that are useful to me in every day life.

If you happened to have seen the talk, please feel free to reach out to me with feedback as I still want to improve upon it for future versions.

Slides can be viewed here, on speaker deck, slideshare or PDF

Abstract

In the development world most people are striving for technical excellence: better code, faster run times, more convenient interfaces, better databases… But is that really what helps us create better software?

In the end software development is done by groups of people creating products together. To do that communication and collaboration are essential. You can be the best programmer ever, but if you can’t efficiently work with others what good does it do you?

This talk will introduce you to relevant, easy to grasp concepts of collaboration and communication as well as give you food for thought.

Videos & Slides: It’s About the Humans, Stupid (Lighting)

 

When I was at the excellent Pivorak meetup I had  the chance to give an “inspirtational” lightning talk. So I took this chance and prepared a lightning talk version of a talk I’ve been submitting to a lot of conferences but always got rejected. The talk is about “soft” skills, not the usual “hard” skills talks that you might be used to 🙂

The topic is very close to my heart as applications aren’t developed in a vacuum – they are developed with and for humans. I hope you enjoy it and that at some point I submit it to the “right” conference which will accept that type of talk 🙂

You can see the slides here or take a look at them at speakerdeck, slideshare or PDF.

Abstract

In the development world most people are striving for technical excellence: better code, faster run times, more convenient interfaces, better databases, faster deployments… But is that really what makes us better at developing software?

In the end software development is done by groups of people creating products together. To do that communication and collaboration between humans is essential – you can be the best programmer ever, if you can’t efficiently work with others what good does it do you?

This talk will give you a primer and food for further thought.