No presentations: just guided conversations and workshops on the hottest topics in software development amongst your peers.
Traditionally conferences feature a set of talks given by speakers, where you consume their thoughts and perhaps get a chance to ask a question at the end.
This conference will be different.
In small groups, we will have guided conversations around the latest topics of interest to software developers. We'll provide the guide, and you'll provide your thoughts. We will all learn from each other.
Join us on Friday 14th September 2018 for a day of conversations and workshops.
We need your help to make this happen! We need people who are familiar with a topic to guide a conversation.
Call for guides closes Tuesday 31st July!
All you need to do for then is let us know you are interested and an idea of a topic, if you are interested and struggling for a topic we can help just get in touch (contact@codecraftuk.org).
What make a good technical team? Think of the best team you worked on…what made it a good team?
What attributes do you want people to have on such teams?
What types of roles do you find on technical teams?
Who do you expect to look after your team?
Why is it important to look after your team?
How do you take care of a new team compared to an established team?
How do you get teams to communicate, collaborate and self-organise more effectively? Have them play with plastic cups, of course!
'Cups of Communication' has been adapted to convey the importance of these three qualities in a fun, interactive, and easy to reproduce way.
And, no, we won't be making telephones.
What makes Remote work different to on-site work?
Are there different kinds of Remote work? What are they like?
How does a team being Remote affect their collaboration?
What does it mean to be inclusive?
What are examples of ways spaces can exclude others?
Why is it important?
Coding on the IBM Quantum Simulator with a brief explanation of Quantum Computing; it’s benefits and current limitations.
What makes for a good recruitment process?
What things should we consider when putting together a job advert?
What makes a good interview?
For our first job, how do we choose between back-end, front-end, full-stack, technology stacks etc. ?
What can we do if we start to realise our jobs are not giving us the development opportunities and experience we would like?
What are some feasible ways of building up experience outside of work?
Let's use mob programming to learn how to build Alexa skills.
We will work as a team to define the intents/ utterances/ design the Alexa skill interaction for a brand new skill.
What do you think a standard is?
When could a standard be useful?
What forms could a standard take?
What is Service Design? What isn’t Service Design?
What kinds of information or insights do Service Designers provide?
What is the value of Service Design in software development?
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A Guided Conversation is a meeting where a facilitator comes up with a starting set of questions around a single topic. The attendees then discuss each of those questions, with 8 minutes for each question.
You can find more information about Guided Conversations here.
We are currently working to choose which topics will be discussed.
The topics will be of interest to all developers regardless of experience or background. Topics we are currently considering include TDD, Microservices and Refactoring.
We are looking for people to facilitate the guided conversations, so please get in touch if you’d like to help.
CodeCraftConf is a proudly language-agnostic conference, where we want to share ideas with as diverse a group of developers as possible. Whether you're building websites for the latest start-up with Ruby, creating financial models for a large global bank in Java or writing a front-end app for an in-house client with .Net, we want to hear from you.
CodeCraft has a Code of Conduct which we require all attendees to adhere to for all events.
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