Multidimensional dive into the technological, cultural and market challenges and opportunities around soft skills, career development, communication, culture, organization and certification in technology field

1. From Journeyman to Master
CodeOnTheBeach, 2013
Ovidiu Dimulescu
@odimulescu
speakerdeck.com/odimulescu

2. The opinions and views expressed in this talk
are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions or views of my employer.

3. Motivation

4. Motivation

5. Motivation

6. Motivation

7. Motivation
Team Lead
Manager
System Engineer
Consultant
Entrepreneur
Technical Sales
Solution Architect
Etc.

9. Challenge

10. Challenge

11. Challenge

12. Challenge
10,000 hours rule
Dr. K. Anders Ericsson

13. Quality over quantity

14. Work smarter not harder

15. Challenge

16. Know what you need to know

18. Learning Avenues
Direct
User Groups
Conferences
Online materials
Open Source Projects
Writing / Speaking / Mentoring

19. “Those who teach learn most”

20. Challenge

21. WHY?

22. Questions more important then answers

23. 5 Whys - Root Cause Analysis
- Eric Reis

24. Challenge

25. “If you think you are too small to
make a difference, try sleeping
with a mosquito.”
―Dalai Lama

26. You can't change anything by fighting or
resisting it. You change something by
making it obsolete through superior
models.
- Buckminster Fuller

27. Regret the things you did,
rather then didn’t

28. Seek first to understand then to be
understood ...

29. Culture - Trust

32. 32
Logging
Metrics
Performance
Security
Platform
Beyond 127.0.0.1

33. 33
Application
Platform
OS
Infrastructure
Dev
Ops
DevOps
Beyond 127.0.0.1

34. 34
Beyond ___________

35. 35
Async Programming
Functional Programming
Polyglot Programming
Polyglot Persistence
SOLID
Design Patterns
Testing
xDD
Technical

37. 37
Big picture, systems view
Non-Technical Work, *ilities
Organizational politics
Lead by Influence
Role not a Title
Architecture

38. 38
Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist,
While you were arguing whether the
glass is half full or half empty, I ...
The ...

39. 39
Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist:
While you were arguing whether the
glass is half full or half empty, I drank it.
- Opportunist

40. 40
Dear Pessimist, Optimist and Realist,
While you were arguing whether the
glass is half full or half empty, I sold it.
- Capitalist

41. 41
“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's
what you think you are not.”
- Denis Waitley

42. Questions ?
Ovidiu Dimulescu
@odimulescu
speakerdeck.com/odimulescu

43. Resources
Pragmatic Programmer, by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas
Productive Programmer, by Neal Ford
Soft skills for IT Pros, by Tech Republic
Design Patterns, by Eric Gramma & all
Who doesn't believe in Magic, by Kate Matsudaira
Operations Management, by Wikipedia
Systems Thinking, by Wikipedia
Who Needs an Architect, by Martin Fowler
http://bredemeyer.com/
DevOps and Cloud, by Matt Zimmerman
The 5 Whys, by Eric Reis