Name: Houston, We Have a Problem... Let's Talk About Our Failures!
Start: 2023-03-30T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2023-03-30T21:00:00+11:00
Location: level 2/50 York St

It's decided: [Let's Talk About Our Failures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuCR0cfjem4&t=828s)!

Let's talk about the failures that led others to blame, the API changes that led all to go down, or maybe that missing comma who missed its test?

[Houston, We Have a Problem!](https://youtu.be/C3J1AO9z0tA?t=80)

**Partners**
[DiUS](dius.com.au) will be hosting the event and providing catering
[TheNetworkIT](https://www.thenetworkit.com/) will be providing recording material
[Meritorious](http://meritorious.com.au/) is supporting the organizer

**Agenda**
· 6:00 pm: Mingle with nibbles and beverages
· 6:20 pm: Introduction
· 6:30 pm: Agree on next meetup details
· 6:45 pm: Part 1 - Cognitive Task Analysis
· 7:30 pm: Break
· 7:45 pm: Part 2 - Cognitive Task Analysis
· 8:30 pm: Closing/Retrospective

**Audio/Video Recording**
This event will be recorded for the purpose of sharing it with crafters who couldn't be present in the day. [Click here to go to Youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCFF9pFNjc7WW9ALoLNDumg)
By doing an RSVP you agree to participate in the recording, if you don't want to be recorded please talk to one of the organisers.

**Cognitive Task Analysis?**
In this event, we'll debut a format never seen in Software Crafters before! It's called Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA). CTA is a widely known technique in psychology and business circles as a knowledge extraction technique used to extract Tacit Knowledge from experts or people who experienced things that are hard to articulate in words. Google it and you'll find quite a number of articles and papers in the subject!

CTA is pretty complex, but for the purpose of our event, we'll be simplifying it to get the most out of the technique. It will work like this:

1\. Everyone will write their failures on the board\. The most interesting is the failure; the better is for the purpose of this format\.
2\. We walk the board\, each author giving a quick description and "selling" the topic to convince the group the topic is valuable for learning purposes\.
3\. The group votes on the topics that have the potential to bring a lot of learning\.
4\. After a brief introduction of the topic\, the author of that failure will receive questions from the group\, facilitated by Fagner\. The questions must be carefully crafted to understand the reasoning/decisions/environment that lead to the failure and the eventual solution/workaround \(if any\)\.

The expected outcomes is a clear understanding from the audience about the circumstances that lead to a failure and its solution/workaround so that both the speaker and the audience can learn collectively.

**Talk to your friends!**
Please invite a colleague, a friend, especially if they are taking their first steps into software development! Bonus points if they have a different perspective on the subject; this will enrich the conversation.

See you there!

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding."
\- Burt Rutan

Fayner Brack 🏳️‍⚧️

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