Excited Developer Syndrome
Room B | Thu 22 Jan 2:25 p.m.–3:10 p.m.
Presented by
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Evan is a serial international speaker and engineering productivity advocate who values frictionless simplicity, taming tech debt, thinking in systems, and tightening feedback loops – all to improve the developer experience and achieve nohumanerrors.com
When he's not working on his next talk or project idea, you may catch him as the Assistant Director for PyCon Australia, tumbling down slopes with a snowboard, chasing frisbees, or defending subway cookies.
Evan is a serial international speaker and engineering productivity advocate who values frictionless simplicity, taming tech debt, thinking in systems, and tightening feedback loops – all to improve the developer experience and achieve nohumanerrors.com
When he's not working on his next talk or project idea, you may catch him as the Assistant Director for PyCon Australia, tumbling down slopes with a snowboard, chasing frisbees, or defending subway cookies.
Abstract
You encountered a problem 🐉. Then, an idea to fix it 💡. Brilliant! ✨
WAIT! 🛑 Come back!
Before you rush off and start implementing...
Let's take a second to look around! 👀
Is that the path with the best way to achieve it?
In an industry where implementation can be so fast or fun, it can be easy to get excited about fixing every problem that comes our way.
And so, we can often forget to pause, look around, and consider:
- Does the solution already exist? Maybe we can contribute to a community solution?
- What are we really trying to achieve? Could our solution be making the problem worse?
- What is the minimum viable product? Maybe we don't need AI...
So in this session, let's sit down and talk about how to minimise your work, and maximise the benefits for everyone!
By the end of the session, you'll walk out with a mindset that allows you to:
- Consider the system as a whole
- Focus on minimising changes to maximise impact
- Supports you to use existing solutions
And this will not just get the problem solved, but also all future ones too, by saving you and other's time, now, and in the future.
You encountered a problem 🐉. Then, an idea to fix it 💡. Brilliant! ✨ WAIT! 🛑 Come back! Before you rush off and start implementing... Let's take a second to look around! 👀 Is that the path with the best way to achieve it?
In an industry where implementation can be so fast or fun, it can be easy to get excited about fixing every problem that comes our way.
And so, we can often forget to pause, look around, and consider: - Does the solution already exist? Maybe we can contribute to a community solution? - What are we really trying to achieve? Could our solution be making the problem worse? - What is the minimum viable product? Maybe we don't need AI...
So in this session, let's sit down and talk about how to minimise your work, and maximise the benefits for everyone!
By the end of the session, you'll walk out with a mindset that allows you to: - Consider the system as a whole - Focus on minimising changes to maximise impact - Supports you to use existing solutions
And this will not just get the problem solved, but also all future ones too, by saving you and other's time, now, and in the future.