Indy.Code() Sessions tagged agile

STUCKness: Zen and the Art of Software Development

You're losing time. You're incompetent. You don't know what you're doing.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Tell me you've never felt this way before.

Let's get real about how we get STUCK. Let's talk about getting unSTUCK. Let's talk about what STUCKness is, what Zen is not, and how you and your team can maybe stop thrashing between Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect long enough to ship some kickass code.

Speaker

Jon Fazzaro

Jon Fazzaro

Senior Consultant, Industrial Logic

Treating Your Software Development Process Like a Product

Continuous learning is a critical principle in agile methodology; teams use the “inspect and adapt” principle to become high-performing and more self-organizing. We don’t exist in a silo, however, and sometimes our pain points come from client services, implementations, marketing, design, and many more. Shockingly, we cause those teams frustrations too.

Backing up to 10,000-foot view and cataloging pain points in your organization can be overwhelming. Which ones most need to be solved? What solution will resolve a particular problem? How do you build connections across functional teams and get buy-in for change?

Modern product design and user research offers a host of tools to catalog pain points in products and assess which should be tackled first. This interactive session will focus on using these techniques to examine your software development process, identify the most critical problems, explore solutions, and work on improvements.

Speaker

Valerie Hurwitz

Valerie Hurwitz

Manager of Software Development, Accutech Systems Corporation