Reflecting on ANOTHER 2 Great Events in 1 Week:

Introduction:

Recently, events have been coming thick and fast!

I was able to go to 2, very different events. This week’s blog post aims to document my experiences at them.

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Events:

Agile:

First things first, I like going to these events because it’s not just software engineers there. There’s PM’s Scrum Masters, Managers, even CTO’s … and the benefit of this is that there are so many different perspectives in 1 room. We never know where career’s might go so being able to think beyond ‘just the code’ is essential.

This event started off with a talk from an experienced professional about all things agile. It was quite blunt, calling out things like ‘The 12 Agile Principles’ (Barely anyone seems to know all these); estimates (They’re never accurate) and of course Retrospectives (A little bit of conflict is needed!!). All in all, this presentation addressed several different aspects of Agile; highlighted problems and shared a wealth of knowledge in a fairly relaxed way.

The 2nd half of this event actually broke off into a persona’s/storyboarding exercise in relation to Agile Retrospectives. This brought in AI and actually reminded me of when I used to study Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as the exercise was fairly similar.

My last comments from this event are just that I was able to meet a wide range of people within the technical space. Data Analyst’s, Founders, CTO’s.

Lightning Talks:

This event was slightly different. 6 lightning talks (About AWS), back to back.

So many great topics were covered. The ‘Well Architected Framework’; Testing LLM Outputs; Pulumi; How Cloud can cost you money; How Cloud can save you money as well as a talk about huge AWS Bills.

Plenty of knowledge and experience shared and I can’t wait for the next one.

Conclusion:

All in all, both events were great in different ways.

The same theme applies no matter the event: Get in more rooms with a wide range of professsionals (In and around tech) that are smarter than me and then just see what I can learn.

Final Things:

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