Beyond Developer - Dan North

Beyond Developer - Dan North

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYEk0y8LYfg

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The Old Testament

The New Testament

help teams deliver stuff in large companies

xp, scrum, ...

Start with

eg. amazon

start with press release

eg. some project

start with readme, then write FAQ

improvement

what do ppl like

success in org

• impact (early career)

• influence

stakeholders are peoples whose life you touch

requirements

are you at cause

or

are you at effect

-> which do you want to be

automation has a cost

do it when it's boring

influence

benefits - me vs org

internal conferences

org has values

do yours align with theirs?

would you wear a Tshirt with logo?

Beyond Developer - Dan North

GOTO 2017 • Beyond Developer • Dan North

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYEk0y8LYfg

GOTO Conferences

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Published on Nov 16, 2017

Description

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2017

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Dan North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal Consultant ABSTRACT When I started in IT the roles were clearly separated. Business Analysts wrote requirements, Architects designed them, Programmers wrote the code, Testers tested the software. Over the last decade or so we have seen a shift towards “generalising specialists” who can cut code, understand a business domain, design a user interface, participate in and automate some of the testing and deployment activities [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here:

https://gotocph.com/2017/sessions/187

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Top Comments

Jeremy Anderson

| I can’t get enough of Dan North, he is a fantastic thinker. 28:00 and five minutes on either side is truly golden.

1 year ago (edited)

Frank Staheli

| Several excellent insights. Here are just a few. "Stakeholders are people whose lives you touch." If you write software for a bank, learn how a bank works. If you work for a store, shop in that store. To understand what program you're writing, see if you can write the "Read Me" instructions and the FAQs first. If it changes every time you do it, don't automate it. If doing it becomes boring, DO automate it.

1 year ago (edited)

Serhii Cho

| Dan is always so open to public, he could speak endlessly

5 months ago

Bastian Wollny

| i just can agree - hopefully next time i am also @GoTo :)

1 year ago

prashant bavan

| haha `the other Lovelace` !!

1 month ago

Marko Bjelac

| Did he say "Its made up of steam and goats and stuff"? :D

1 year ago

Kevin Beal

| Women and minorities secretly invented everything and we're everywhere meme.

1 month ago

Kevin Beal

| Ironically, when you make white guys the only people who can be made to look bad, they become the most human and relatable. Making women and minorities holy takes away their humanity. You must relate to what they represent, not to they themselves. "I must hire this woman in the name of Justice" It's a luxury to be able to think this way. Most of us just want to get work done and food on the table.

1 month ago