Presentation at AIESEC Lotus IT Education conference, 24 May 2013. Highlighting challenges of IT field, what makes one a decent IT professional and successful education initiatives available.

1. What makes IT tick?
Aleksejs Truhans @ AIESEC Lotus, 2013.05.24

2. Slides published at http://www.slideshare.net/AleksejsTruhans

3. Challenges and motivations in IT field.
What makes you a star IT professional?
IT education: successful experiences
and opportunities.

4. What makes IT tick?

5. Money?
Software?
Hardware?

6. http://www.replicatedtypo.com/

7. The environment

8. http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/
We work hard...

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway

10. http://brucesmideastsoundbites.blogspot.com/2009/03/down-drain-pouring-money-down.html
Some of our work goes down
the drain

11. Grit,
stamina,
10000 hours...

12. By Simon Baker, http://www.energizedwork.com/weblog/2007/11/xpday7-why-do-agile-projects-fail
We don't know the future.

13. http://community.humanityhealing.net/group/toolsforshiftingperspective/forum/topics/is-what-you-see-real-change-your-per-
ception-change-your-life
Our perception changes...

14. http://www.tnp.sg/picture/big-picture-week-12-finalist-5
People change...

15. http://vxside.deviantart.com/art/4-seasons-81436429
So does the environment.

16. ➲Simplicity
➲Discipline
➲Value
➲Reflection
➲Beyond rules and roles

17. Agile Manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

18. Challenges

19. Infinite “almost ready” state

20. We lie to ourselves
➲ Customers will understand...
➲ We will fix it in the next release...

21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tribesports/8434409743/

22. http://www.freepik.com/
Illusion of simplicity

23. From Douglas Crockford's JSMin license

24. Becoming a star

25. We learn,
analyze,
invent,
communicate,
make decisions...

26. FIXME: star
http://sirenphoenix10.deviantart.com/art/You-re-a-star-356167722

30. Communication,
collaboration,
lifelong learning...

32. http://praguestepchild.blogspot.com/2011/02/pride-of-workmanship.html
Professionalism...

33. http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2010/05/it-works-on-my-machine.html
Responsibility...

34. http://alvar-extra.a-blast.org/

35. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons

36. /http://uphilldowndale.files.wordpress.com/

37. Image from Wikimedia

40. Learning opportunities

41. www.ldn.lv

42. ldn.lv & agile-latvia.org
600 200

44. http://www.meetup.com/Latvian-Developers-Network/events/109220132/

45. www.agile-latvia.org
User stories workshops
– May 23rd, 2013
– May 30st, 2013
– Jun 06th, 2013

46. ldn.lv
Coding dojos, code retreats and
workshops
– Past: Erlang, Haskell, Google Go,
Javascript, Clojure
– Android – Jun 15th, 2013

47. Wildcard conference – Sep 13, 2013
Everyone's invited!
Tracks:
● Engineering
● Databases
● Testing
● Web + Mobile
● Agile + DevOps
http://wildcardconf.com/
@WildcardConf

49. Progmeistars.lv

51. Java 1 – Java and OOP fundamentals
Java 2 – Web development practice
Java 3 – Java Professional
http://www.javaguru.lv

52. http://www.javaguru.lv

53. http://dossee-tsi.tumblr.com/
ERASMUS IP
http://www.facebook.com/promandWSG

54. https://github.com/silkeostermann/iCube
IP DOSSEE - Open Source
http://www.slideshare.net/dimituri/ip-dossee-2011-team-6
Interactive Whiteboard

58. Thank you!

59. Some useful links
➲ “Economics of Software Design” by
J.B.Rainsberger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=7HecgbghFTk
➲ http://articles.jbrains.ca/GettingSt
artedWithGettingThingsDone.pdf
➲ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog
/2005/06/self-discipline/
➲ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog