Pacific Northwest Software Symposium

September 6 - 8, 2013

Friday - Sep 6 3:15 PM PDT - Salon 4

Now that you've completed the “Critical Thinking in Software Engineering” lecture, it's time to put your new skills to work. In this session, we'll break up into teams. Each team will be presented with either an argument to evaluate or a problem situation for which you must construct an argument advocating a particular course of action.

Teams will then be responsible for presenting their evaluations and arguments to the group, and the group as a whole will evaluate the presentations.

Topics to include:

Pair Programming Doesn't Work
Craftsmanship: Friend or Foe?
The Code IS the Design
Rap Genius v. Heroku
Containers and the Cloud
Good Morning ORM!
TDD: Guide or Guard Rail?
Build Tool Battle Royale
Our DB is Web Scale!
To Estimate or Not To Estimate?

Matt Stine

I Enable Early-Career Enterprise Software Engineers to Continuously Improve

About Matt Stine

My passion is taking a metaphysical approach to software engineering: what is the nature of the collaborative game that we continuously play, and are there better, more contextually-aware ways to play that game?

By day I lead a team tasked with taking a first-principles-centric approach to intentionally enabling programming language usage at the largest bank in the United States.

By night I write and teach my way through a masterclass in software engineering and architecture targeting early-career software engineers working in large-scale enterprise technology organizations.

What is the primary goal?

To win the game. More seriously: to get 1% better every day at providing business value through software.

Who am I?

I'm a 22-year veteran of the enterprise software industry. I've played almost every role I can imagine:

Software Engineer
Software Architect
Technical Lead
Engineering Manager
Consultant
Product Manager
Field CTO
Developer Advocate
Conference Speaker
Author
Technical Trainer
Technical Marketer
Site Reliability Engineer
Desktop Support Specialist

I've worked at Fortune 500 companies, a tenacious teal cloud startup, and a not-for-profit children's hospital. I've written a book, and I've hosted a podcast. I've learned a lot along the way, including many things I wish I'd known when I first got started. And so now I want to pass those learnings on to you, especially if you've only just begun your career.