Open Mastery: Let's Conquer the Challenges of the Industry!
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
Denver · November 20 - 22, 2015
About this Presentation
What if you could get upper management to care about your technical problems? Would you be willing to measure and prioritize the problems?
What if WE could stop the relentless business pressure that drives our software projects into the ground across the industry? I know this probably sounds impossible, but before you dismiss the idea entirely, let me show you that it is possible.
We can start a cascade of changes across the industry with only a handful of people that are willing to work together to make it happen.
90% of our software is built from existing parts. Bad software has become like environment pollution. With increasing demand for software, an irrelevant education system, and tons of developers building crappy software, we've got a dumping ground of shared software full of security risks and unexpected costs, and no way to tell what's what.
Open Mastery is a peer learning network focused on codifying open decision models and standards to solve industry-wide problems. This presentation is about the obstacles, the strategy, and the business model.
I need your help. Let's identify where the strategy might break, and figure out how to make it work. I'm launching Open Mastery in early 2016. Let's make this dream a reality.
Developer Experience Researcher, University of Victoria
Arty Starr has been a software engineer for 20+ years and is a researcher and pioneer of new theories of the developer's cognitive experience that help us recognize how developers' experiences are changing with AI. Her theories of developer momentum and troubleshooting help us see software development through an ecological lens, recognizing it as a living activity in motion and the living capacities of care and cognition that support this motion. Her aim is to bring heart, human-centric values, and agency to the craft of software development so we can build toward the type of world we want to live in. With richer perception and by recognizing what matters, we can light a path to a future of thriving habitats where humans and AI can collaborate well and thrive together.
Arty is the author of Idea Flow, a speaker, thought leader, and artist who loves mixing ideas across disciplines into a fusion of creativity to help make the world a better place through her projects.