Melb: Getting devs to write good docs | Making Imposter Syndrome work for you

Technical Documentation - Why developers don’t do it well?

Kruti Dhaval Patel, Senior Mobile Developer, iflix

Summary

Documentation is an important part of software engineering. Every developer, tester and project manager has to go through many different types of documentation during the project lifecycle. Documentation such as requirements gathering, wireframes, technical design – documentation of code, algorithms, interfaces, and APIs. Most of the developers avoid writing technical documentation or don’t write it well. Let’s talk about the value of writing a good set of technical documents.

About the presenter

Kruti is a founder of "YoungCodersAU" and a Senior Mobile Developer.She is passionate about increasing the number of women in the technology sector as well as teaching our younger generation coding to increase their interest in technology, hence she started "YoungCodersAU" and a YouTube channel “AWomanThatCodes”.

With these initiatives, she aims to share her knowledge and expertise in both Java and Mobile Development for Android within the community. She loves to talk about new innovative creative emerging technologies. Her track record in delivering engaging tech talks and workshops include Pause Festival, Future Assembly and Google Developers meetup just to name a few.

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Making Imposter Syndrome work for you

Nicola Nye, Customer and Communications Manager, FastMail

Summary

A soul searching examination on what it means to be a documentarian, why most of us think we're frauds, and why this is actually totally completely utterly great! All through the lens of Mem Fox's classic: "Where is the Green Sheep?"

About the presenter

Nicola is still surprised and delighted to be paid to write for a living. She has spent much of her career wearing various hats for Melbourne's internet startups: programmer, QA, BA, PM and other acronyms. Now she's the Communications Manager for FastMail, helping people to help themselves.

She expects her next role will be as a pirate ninja cat-unicorn-fairy but until the transformation completes, she fights crime with her superhero children, rides her bike and eats insufficient quantities of chocolate.