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DEV Thinking - the Workshop

A 1 day workshop for non-technical marketing, product and content people who work directly with developers. You learn to think like a coder, not to code.

Developer

Working with developers is easy and relaxing, even when it seems the other way round: IT prima-donnas, incomprehensible, condescending. And those are the nice words.

What you and your team take away

I have worked with developers for 20+ years, was a developer myself and organized Austria’s biggest developer meetup. I teach:

  • how to think like a developer
  • how to work with developers, coders and IT, whether you want, need or must
  • how to get out any drama that works against your project
  • clearer thinking about your own work, even if you do not work directly with developers

Agenda: think like a developer

  • Goals
  • Code
    • Programming
    • Tests
    • Refactoring
    • The beauty of beautiful code.
  • Exact vs. fluffy language.
  • Motivation
    • intrinsic
    • extrinsic
  • Dev Bullshit Detector
    • Thinking in probability
    • Uncertainty
    • Dependencies
  • Reasoning
    • Things are that way because they got this way.
    • If problem Nr 1 is solved, Nr 2 gets a promotion.
    • Requirements, Limitations, Outcome
    • Who wants what
    • IS / SHOULD
  • Organization
    • Dev & Marketing
    • Dev & Product
    • Dev & Management
  • Good meetings vs sh*t meetings
  • Juniors, Midlevel, Senior, 10x - Programmers
  • Feedback to Devs
  • Feedback from Devs

Book it for your team

Mail fe (at) f19n dot com. Written in 2021, when we planned a workshop series for Q3/2021.

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