What makes IT tick?

Aleksejs Truhans @ AIESEC Lotus, 2013.05.24

Slides published at http://www.slideshare.net/AleksejsTruhans

Challenges and motivations in IT field.

What makes you a star IT professional?

IT education: successful experiences and opportunities.

What makes IT tick?

Money?Software?Hardware?

http://www.replicatedtypo.com/

The environment

http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/

We work hard...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway

http://brucesmideastsoundbites.blogspot.com/2009/03/down-drain-pouring-money-down.html

Some of our work goes down the drain

Grit, stamina,

10000 hours...

By Simon Baker, http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2007/11/xpday7-why-do-agile-projects-fail

We don't know the future.

http://community.humanityhealing.net/group/toolsforshiftingperspective/forum/topics/is-what-you-see-real-change-your-per-ception-change-your-life

Our perception changes...

http://www.tnp.sg/picture/big-picture-week-12-finalist-5

People change...

http://vxside.deviantart.com/art/4-seasons-81436429

So does the environment.

➲Simplicity➲Discipline➲Value ➲Reflection➲Beyond rules and roles

Agile Manifesto

We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing it and helping others do it.Through this work we have come to value:

That is, while there is value in the items onthe right, we value the items on the left more.

Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan

Challenges

Infinite “almost ready” state

We lie to ourselves

➲ Customers will understand...➲ We will fix it in the next release...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tribesports/8434409743/

http://www.freepik.com/

Illusion of simplicity

From Douglas Crockford's JSMin license

Becoming a star

We learn, analyze, invent,

communicate, make decisions...

FIXME: star

http://sirenphoenix10.deviantart.com/art/You-re-a-star-356167722

Communication,collaboration,

lifelong learning...

http://praguestepchild.blogspot.com/2011/02/pride-of-workmanship.html

Professionalism...

http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2010/05/it-works-on-my-machine.html

Responsibility...

http://alvar-extra.a-blast.org/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons

/http://uphilldowndale.files.wordpress.com/

Image from Wikimedia

Learning opportunities

www.ldn.lv

ldn.lv & agile-latvia.org

600 200

http://www.meetup.com/Latvian-Developers-Network/events/109220132/

www.agile-latvia.org

User stories workshops– May 23rd, 2013

– May 30st, 2013

– Jun 06th, 2013

ldn.lv

Coding dojos, code retreats and workshops– Past: Erlang, Haskell, Google Go,

Javascript, Clojure

– Android – Jun 15th, 2013

Wildcard conference – Sep 13, 2013

Everyone's invited!

Tracks: ● Engineering● Databases● Testing● Web + Mobile● Agile + DevOps

http://wildcardconf.com/ @WildcardConf

Progmeistars.lv

Java 1 – Java and OOP fundamentals

Java 2 – Web development practice

Java 3 – Java Professional

http://www.javaguru.lv

http://www.javaguru.lv

http://dossee-tsi.tumblr.com/

ERASMUS IP

http://www.facebook.com/promandWSG

https://github.com/silkeostermann/iCube

IP DOSSEE - Open Source

http://www.slideshare.net/dimituri/ip-dossee-2011-team-6

Interactive Whiteboard

Thank you!

Some useful links

➲ “Economics of Software Design” by J.B.Rainsberger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HecgbghFTk

➲ http://articles.jbrains.ca/GettingStartedWithGettingThingsDone.pdf

➲ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/self-discipline/

➲ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/

➲ http://agileee.org/2011/07/15/keynote-the-extreme-decade/

➲ http://agileee.org/2011/07/14/keynote-effective-software-develop-ment-in-the-21st-century-the-new-face-of-software-engineering/