Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin
July 26 - 28, 2019
Anatomy of Culture
Friday - Jul 26 5:00 PM CDT - BLUEBONNET
What makes software development complex isn't the code, it's the humans. The most effective way to improve our capabilities as an organization is to better understand ourselves.
In this session, we'll breakdown the dynamics of culture into explicit architecture models based on a synthesis of research that spans cognitive science, biology and philosophy. We'll discuss the nature of Identity, communication, relationships, leadership and human motivation by thinking about humans like code!
If you want to better understand the crazy humans around you, you won't want to miss this talk!
Arty Starr
Developer Experience Researcher, University of Victoria
About Arty Starr
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.