London .NET July 2023 with Angeliki Patsiavou and Nick Chapsas

Join us at Codat's offices in Farringdon for our July meetup! We've got two fantastic guest speakers lined up for you: Angeliki Patsiavou will be talking about what "The Avengers" taught her about working with developers, and Nick Chapsas is going to tell us all why we're doing logging wrong with .NET - and how to fix it.

Angeliki Patsiavou: What the Avengers taught me about working with developers

Developers are a curious kind of creature. Often found in the wild lands of product development, they create magical solutions by bringing requirements to life. As a Change Manager and big fan of the Avengers, I am fascinated by what I can achieve with them. However, due to misconceptions around the value and timing for Change Management, a question remains. How do you bring such different skillsets together to fight the battle against terrible implementations?

Whilst many turn to ChatGPT, I am here to share with you what I learned from the Avengers about bringing a diverse team together. From fighting monsters in New York, to the absolute end game with the infinity stones, they can teach us a lot about dealing with adversity to bring change, enterprise, or small scale. After all, they also share a common mission despite a very diverse background.

Through parallels between the Avengers and product implementation teams, as well as the core principles of building robust and scalable applications, we will focus on defining what matters; Smart collaboration to make users the heroes of every solution story and empower them to navigate a world of continuous tech transformation.

Angeliki is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP and Prosci® certified, multi-lingual Change Manager with extensive experience in business applications and enterprise change. With a FTSE 100 client background in Financial Services, CRM and Marketing across Microsoft, Adobe, and Salesforce platforms, she manages global transformation and adoption programs with deep human impact. She is also a speaker in the Microsoft Community, advocating as a human evangelist about user-centered design and enabling governance.

Nick Chapsas: You are doing logging in .NET wrong. Let's fix it.

Logging is a vital part of every application that runs in production. It is in place to tell a story about the lifecycle of its runtime and make it easy for developers to debug a system and identify what failed and how when things go wrong.

It is, however, extremely easy to get it wrong, and the problems caused can stay hidden for years. In this session, I will talk you through all the possible issues that logging can cause and show you how you can fix every single one of them.

Nick is a software engineer and Developer Technologies Microsoft MVP based in London. He is creating educational content on YouTube about everything .NET and C#.