July DJUG: Breeding 10x Developers with Developer Productivity Engineering

The July DJUG meeting will be at Grand Circus Detroit, centrally located in downtown Detroit at 1570 Woodward Avenue. Meet on the 3rd floor.

Breeding 10x Developers with Developer Productivity Engineering
Sasquatch. Yeti. The Loch Ness Monster. The 10x Developer. You may think of these as mythical creatures that can’t possibly exist, but the 10x Organization is very real. In this session, Gradle’s Brian Demers will explain how a dedicated Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) organization can breed 10x Developers. By reducing the toil, friction, and frustration of slow builds, flaky tests, and other avoidable failures, a DPE team enables a level of developer productivity that you may have thought impossible. Brian will help you explore DPE technologies, including build and test acceleration, failure analytics, and easily analyzed build records to show how to create an environment in which 10x Developers not only exist, but thrive.

Speaker Bio
The speaker for this meeting is Brian Demers who is coming in from Concord, New Hampshire.

Brian Demers is a Java Champion, Developer Advocate at Gradle, and a PMC member for the Apache Shiro project. He spends much of his day contributing to OSS projects in the form of writing code, tutorials, blogs, and answering questions. Along with typical software development, Brian also has a passion for fast builds and automation. Away from the keyboard, Brian is a beekeeper and can likely be found playing board games. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/briandemers.

Rundown
6:30 - Doors open. Pizza, beverages, and networking.
7:00 - Opening Remarks, Industry News, Peer Review, and Jobs in Java.
7:10 - Main presentation (60 mins approx. with Q&A)
8:30 - Lights out.