Autor: NicoPaez

Agile 2017 Conference, day 3 notes

They started with the keynote by Jez Humble about Continuous Delivery. Nothing new for me, but it was interesting to hear some real world cases with concrete stats.

At 10.45 I went to the session Design Patterns Thinking and Architecture at Scale by Al Shalloway. The session was focused more on design patterns than on architecture at scale.

In the afternoon I attended to Rebeca’s session titled Three Practices for Paying Ongoing Attention to System Qualities, I think 2 of the 3 presented practices could be very useful for my current project.

My last session was High Performing Teams: Want to watch one in action? Absolutely! by Bryan Miles. For me, the session was one of the best sessions of the whole conference. Brian invited a quartet: 3 violins and 1 cello. This quartet had been playing together for a long time and were in fact a high performance team. The dynamic of the session was focused on the quartet following «some rules» while playing and the audience analysed and discussed the interaction among the musicians.

The day ended with the Extravagan-Zoo activity that was a an opportunity to do some networks while sharing some drinks and food with the sponsors. Nice.

Agile 2017 Conference, day 2 notes

There was no keynote, so I went directly the session High Performance via Psychological Safety by Joshua Kerievsky y Heidi Helfland. Nice session, I got several resources to investigate.

A session that I really enjoyed was Writing better BDD scenarios which was facilitated by Seb Rose (cucumber) and Gaspar Nagy (specfow). The session was workshop type, the content was very useful and the dynamic of the session was very appropriated.

At the end of the day there was a session called «Agile tonight!» that was like a TV show with interviews, moderated by Paul Hammond. I just visited this session for a while because it did not catch my attention. So I moved to a common area to share «mate» drinks with some colleagues.

 

Comienzo de MeMo2 @ FIUBA

El lunes pasado comenzamos las clases de Métodos y Modelos en la Ingeniería de Software 2 en FIUBA (aka MeMo2). Tan solo 3 alumnos inscriptos, lo cual está bien para una primera edición de la materia, creo que nos va a permitir experimentar y pivotear a nivel planificación y dinámica de clases. Más allá de esto, debo decir que en los casi 20 años que llevo en FIUBA, nunca estuve en un curso con tan pocos participantes.

Los tres alumnos tienen experiencia laboral en el rubro informático, un detalle que me parece importante dados los temas que pensamos abordar en la materia. Si los alumnos no tuvieran experiencia laboral, se corre el riesgo de que no vean el valor de los temas abordados. Es como si uno les estuviera explicando soluciones a problemas que ellos aún no imaginan.

Continuará…

Agile 2017, notes from my Continuous Delivery session

Agile 2017, notes from my Continuous Delivery session

Last Thursday I delivered my session «Infrastructure patterns for Continuous Delivery«. There were about 40 participants, most of them developers. The session flowed as expected and was completed on time. There was a very good interaction with the participants. At the end of the session I asked the participants to rank the session (1 to 5) and I got an average of 4.5 😉

Here are the slides of the session.

 

Agile2017, notes from my DevOps session

Agile2017, notes from my DevOps session

On Monday afternoon I deliver my session «DevOps, an adoption model based on Maslow’s hierarchy». There were about 60 participants, with a good balance of technical and non-technical roles. The session flowed as expected, the participants interacted in a very collaborative way. At the end of the session I asked the participants to rank the session (1 to 5) and I got an average of 4 🙂

Here are the slides I used during the session and here you can find some pictures of the participants and also of the posters created during the session.

Agile 2017 Conference, day 1 notes

A lady jumped onto the main stage, her name was Tricia Broderick, chair of the conference. She did some announcements and invited Phil Brock, Agile Alliance managing director, to the stage. He did some more announcements. Finally keynote speaker David Marquet took the stage to talk about leadership and engagement. The talk was based his book Turn your ship around!. It was an interesting talk and David was a great speaker.

After the keynote I attended to the session «DevOps Performance Measurement» by Dennis Ehle.

After the lunch I delivered my session about DevOps, for now I will just say that it was fine because I plan to write another article about it.

In the time-slot after my session I went around 3 different sessions because none of them caught my attention.

To close the day I went to the Sponsor Exhibit & Ice Breaker Reception to share some snacks and drinks with colleagues and walk around the sponsor’s stands.

Ice Breaker Reception: Hiro, me, Andrés and Juan

 

Agile 2017 Conference, day 0 notes

For some participants the conference started on Sunday. That was my case. There were a couple of things that caught my attention:

  • The registration desk was already open, so those arriving on Sunday can register and avoid any potential queue on Monday morning.
  • There was an «Early registration Meet & Greet» to start getting in contact with other attendees.
  • There was a «First time attendee orientation» session. It is the first time I see something like this, but given the conference is huge (over 2000 participant) it made sense to have some orientation.

 

Talleres segundo semestre 2017: DevOps, Continuous Delivery y Git

Para esta segunda mitad del año tengo planificado dictar los siguientes talleres:

  • Taller de Git, el martes 29 de Agosto, de 14 a 18 hs. en SADIO.
  • Taller de Continuous Delivery y Prácticas DevOps,  es un taller de 8 horas que dictaré el 15 de Septiembre en Kleer@Montevideo y el 3 de Octubre en Kleer@Argentina. El siguiente video explica brevemente el contenido del taller.

 

Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas 2017 @UBA

Esta semana se está desarrollando en UBA Exactas la edición número 31 de Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas. Este evento se desarrolla todos los años durante el receso de invierno y dura una semana. En su contexto se desarrollan cursos dictados por referentes académicos de primer nivel.  Cada curso tiene una duración total de 15 horas (3 horas por día). En mi época de estudiante en @fiuba, aprobar cursos de ECI permitía sumar créditos para la carrera. En esta ocasión me anoté en el curso Big Data Systems.

Adicionalmente a los cursos se desarrollan un conjunto charlas. En esta edición hay 2 charlas a las que planeo asistir:

Notas del Meetup sobre Patrones de Infraestructura para Continuous Delivery

Si bien había más de 100 inscriptos la cantidad de participantes fue alrededor de 30, lo cual es está dentro de los parámetros esperados para los Meetup gratuitos de Agiles@Baires. La mayoría de los asistentes eran desarrolladores (~80%) y el resto se repartía entre gente de operaciones/sysadmins y gente de gestión. La audiencia estuvo muy participativa, hubo varias consultas e incluso algunos participantes hicieron aportes desde su propia experiencia.

A mi gusto la sesión fluyó muy bien, sobre todo considerando que fue la primera vez que la hice. Fueron alrededor de 80 minutos de exposición, con algunas preguntas intercaladas, y otros 20 minutos dedicados exclusivamente a consultas. De cara a la presentación en Agile, voy a tener que hacer varios ajustes y practicar un poco más, ya que el límite de tiempo que tengo es de 75 minutos y al mismo tiempo al ser una sesión en inglés es posible que no tenga tanta soltura en la oratoria.

Agradezco a todos los participantes por el feedback y les dejo aquí los slides utilizados.