John Petersen
Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States
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Intellectual property concepts every knowledge worker should understand
Furthering their organizations "Shift-left" initiative, attendees will gain a fundamental understanding of what intellectual property (IP) is, the differences between copyrights, trademarks, & patents, and the often overlooked role of trade secrets. In addition, special coverage will center on AI and the potential pitfalls of data spillage and rights violations.
This beginner-level session assumes no prior or technical knowledge and can easily accomodate a 30, 45, or 60 min presentation
How I trimmed 10 inches and 100 lbs by applying Agile and Lean principles
During the Covid lockdown, like everyone else, I had to live with a new reality. On top of that, my blood pressure as 160/100, on the pathway to a stroke. It occurred to me that what we seek to do for our clients via continuous improvement, removing waste, and getting the client "Fit" - we must do for ourselves. In this session, I'll share my journey and how I remediated a lot of physical technical debt by turning Agile and Lean inward. Concepts like Transparency, Inspection, and Adaption began to take on new, very personal, and more meaning that provided an entirely new perspective to apply to my practice. Another concept is People, Process, and Tools in that order. During the Covid lockdown, I had to initially work with what I had; eventually progressing on the crawl, walk, and run continuum. Ultimately success would be verifiable. It was simply a matter of commitment.. I started this journey at age 55... And I'll enable you how to get started, easily.. The rest will be up to you! Just like Agile!
This could be a 30 min session or longer, or possibly a keynote.
How I use VS Code to implement local CICD
It's simplicity, transparency, & clarity make VS Code an effective code editor. One of VS Code's greatest features is the seamless way the terminal/CLI experience meshes with an intellisense-enabled code editor. In this session, I'll demonstrate how I use VS Code as a CI/CD-based development workbench approach that organizations can use as part of their "Shifting-left" initiative. Specific coverage will examine the extension ecosystem and how to incorporate and integrate bash/Powershell - based scripts as part of VS Code launch and build tasks that can be further leveraged for local integration testing. It can often seem overwhelming to get comfortable with CLI and shell environments. It's just a matter of understanding the basics, how to apply and learn them, and then finally expanding on them. Attendees will be enabled with that understanding which in turn, will boost confidence.
This is a beginner-level session with no prior knowledge of VS Code or CICD is required. Full, portable code examples will be demonstrated and provided.
What lies at the heart of Agile and how it can take root in your organization
For all of its ubiquity, Agile is greatly misunderstood. Implementation failures are often pegged to lack of management commitment, lack of tooling, lack of whatever. Often, Agile and Scrum are conflated. Sometimes, Agile is reduced to simply "Not being waterfall." The fact is, Agile does have a precise definition: the values enumerated in Agile Manifesto. Whether how Agile is practiced is compatible with those values is another matter.
Agile is as much about how it came to be as what the Manifesto says it is. 17 industry leaders checked their egos at the door in February 2001, but managed to still bring healthy and spirited opinions to the floor. There are many contemporaneous accounts from that Snowbird meeting, some of which will be shared and discussed in this session.
In this session, attendees will be enabled with a fundamental understanding of Agile's egalitarian and social democratic roots. In addition, attendees will also be equipped with techniques on how to apply Agile within a host environment that is often not egalitarian and socially democratic.
Beginner session with no prior Agile experience necessary.
John Petersen
Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States
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