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My notes from IEEE WECIS 2017 @ Tucumán

Last week I traveled to Tucumán to participate in the WESCIS conference. I shared Sunday morning with some of the IEEE Students in charge of the organization. In the afternoon I met my colleague Ivan Hansen at Yerba Buena neighbourhood. Finally, at the end of the day I had dinner in a typical restaurant with Gustavo Juárez (president of the IEEE Argentina) and some students and other speakers: Ivan Ruiz Flores (an electrical engineer from Cuernavaca, México), Roberto Urriza(an engineer specialized in Robotics) and Edmundo Loandos (an engineer and professor specialized in data center virtualization),

On Monday I delivered two talks, the first about Modern Extreme Programming and the second one about Legacy Code and Continuous Delivery. For these two talks I used Google Forms questionnaires to interact with the audience: I prepared a couple of questions (each of them in a different form) and asked the audience to fill them at different points of the talk. I really liked this dynamic, I think it is a great way to interact with large audiences (I think there were 60+ people in the talks). Here and here are the slides I used during the talks. In the evening I met some UTN-FRT professors to share some teaching experiences. It was a very nice surprise to discover that one of them had read my book and she was using it in her course.

On Tuesday’s morning I visited Ivan’s company to meet part of his team and talk about DevOps. In the afternoon I delivered a workshop about Modern XP. There were around 35 people and they evaluated the workshop with 4.5/5.

 

I want to thank Ariana and all the IEEE team @ Tucumán for this great conference, it was an honour for me to be part of it.

More pictures here.

Preparing for IEEE Week Brazil

Preparing for IEEE Week Brazil

Next week I will be participating in the IEEE Week conference organised by the IEEE Students Chapter at University of Brasilia. In this context I will facilitate 2 activities.

On Monday 24 I will deliver a 4-hour workshop about «Modern Extreme Programming«.

On Tuesday 25 I will deliver the lecture: DevOps, myths and facts of a new paradigm.

Beyond these formal activities I expect to meet some local professors and practitioners to talk and share experiences about Software Engineering.

If you will be around and want to meet to share a talk (and a beer?) just contact me.

IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program

Recientemente he sido seleccionado para formar parte del Programa de Visitantes Distinguidos de la IEEE (DVP), un iniciativa que busca promover el contacto de los diferentes capítulos de IEEE con líderes y referentes de la industria.

Aún no estoy completamente familiarizado con la dinámica pero según he entendido la cuestión es:

  1. Todos los años IEEE selecciona entre sus miembros algunos referentes de la industria para ser speakers del programa DVP.
  2. Los distintos capítulos de IEEE pueden invitar a speakers del programa DVP para participar de sus eventos locales (cada capítulo es un grupo de IEEE típicamente con alcance local a una cuidad/estado)
  3. IEEE se encarga del pagar los costos de viaje del speaker.
  4. El capítulo que realiza la invitación se encarga de cubrir los gastos locales.

Agradezco a IEEE por el reconocimiento y si hay algún capítulo interesado en mi visita no dude en escribirme (nicopaez_at_computer.org)