Online #CraftConf Software Delivery Meetup

Join us for our first ever [online] meetup to keep connected while social distancing. Sure, we're all looking forward to hanging out in person again, but in the meantime, we're experimenting with new ways to keep our crafting community strong - and thanks to our audience-favourite speakers, our start couldn't be stronger.

Our meeting platform will be Zoom where you'll be muted but we highly encourage turning on your camera to maintain a tiny bit of face to face feeling. To make it as interactive as virtuality allows, we'll move networking to Slack to share files and start conversations and Slido to send and upvote questions. We may experience some technical difficulties, but heck, we're doing our best to adapt to the new normal.

🗓 Agenda (CET)
7:00-7:10 pm: Meet and greet
7:10-7:35 pm: Woody Zuill's talk and Q&A on Slido
7:35-8:00 pm: Kevlin Henney's talk and Q&A on Slido
8:00-8:25 pm: Michael Feathers' talk and Q&A on Slido
8:25 pm-: Sip and mingle on Slack

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📢 Woody Zuill (Agile and Lean Software Development Guide @ Woody Zuill Agile Guide)

Why does it have to be so difficult?
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” ~Peter Drucker
It seems clear that there is often a “right way” or “best practice” for many tasks in the modern workplace - but is that clarity real, or just a trick that we play on ourselves?
The biggest successes I’ve experienced in software development have been the result of finding ways to Make It Easy for people to excel in their work, and to connect and interact as humans.
Unfortunately, there are many things that get in our way.
We will explore some of the problems we face, and a few things that might make it easy for us to have a better future.

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📢 Kevlin Henney (Software Development Consultant @ Curbralan)
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

Latin words are found across the world's languages, the Roman alphabet dominates the world's writing and the standard calendar derives from Julius Caesar's reforms. But Roman numerals... well, they number Star Wars episodes and sports events, they date old buildings and BBC productions for TV, and they get used as a coding kata — convert a positive integer to a string containing the corresponding Roman numeral. In this talk we'll look at ways to solve this that range from high technical-debt enterprise-style through to through-provokingly elegant dataflow approaches.

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📢 Michael Feathers (Director @ R7K Research & Conveyance)
Activation - A Missing Concept in Architecture

We know how to discuss and diagram architecture, but what happens when we expand our view to the knowledge that we generate as we work? Knowledge cycles through people and through artifacts. It is perishable. In this short talk, Michael will describe the concept of activation and how it provides a unified view of the dynamics of socio-technical architecture.

✨ Be excellent with each other! Our general CoC is in order therefore this meetup too is a harassment-free event.
By turning on your camera you consent that pictures might be taken of you and uploaded to the Craft's meetup group or social media pages.
In case of questions or requests please reach out to the organizers.