Agenda
Day One:
9:30
James Governor Introduction
Part One:
Code is Craft
9:45-10:05
Rafe Colburn (Etsy) on Artisanal Software Manufacturing
10:05-10:25
Craig Kerstiens & Matt Thompson (Heroku)
10:25-10:40
Ted Nyman (GitHub) Scaling Happiness
GitHub has long focused on ‘optimizing for happiness’ for its employees. The company has an unparalleled low turnover rate as a result. But how to continue this as GitHub grows larger is not easy. I’ll talk about how we’re avoiding the generic and ultimately empty ‘bread and circuses’ HR approach to happiness, and how our flat hierarchy helps make this possible.
10:40 -
11:00 Mazz Mosley & Nick Stenning (Government Digitial Service UK) Making for makers
-In which we reveal the hidden skills of the JavaScript developer, and
explain why you rarely find violinmakers in the forest.
Break
11:00-11:30
Quick coffee break & pastries
Part Two:
User Experience & Scaling Design
11:30-12:00
Phil Gilbert (IBM PureSystems)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Part Three: Data & Science
13:00-13:30
Chris Thorpe Scaling (a) craft: Printing steam trains at scales up to 1:1
13:30-13:50
Steve Citron-Pousty (Red Hat) Ecosystem managent brings the science to scaling
Edumacating you about using science to managing your ecosystem – developer or otherwise
13:50-14:10
Donnie Berkholz (RedMonk)
14:10-14:30
Greg Avola (Untappd) Beer – A Positive Influencer
14:30-14:50
Diane Mueller (ActiveState)
Break
14:50-15:20
Part Four: Tools for Data
15:20-15:40
Simon Willison (Lanyrd) Coolest tools for data
15:40-15:55
Dave McCrory (Warner Music) Data Gravity, Learning and Craft
15:55-16:15
Rik Van Bruggen (Neo4J)
16:15-16:30
Elco Jacobs (BrewPI) BrewPi: scaling from hobby to business
17:00, 17:30, 17:45 – Buses to secret location
Day Two:
10:15-10:30 James Governor intro
Part One:
Scaling Craft
10:30-10:50
Shanley Kane (Basho) Scaling Product “Management”: Keeping Roadmaps, Estimation, and Self-Delusion From Destroying Your Company
10:50-11:10
Cyndi Mitchell (Logspace) Hogs, Humans and Software Excellence
Thoughts on scaling craft from a small-scale hog farmer and software executive
11:10-11:30
Tim Webb (Genuitec) Tips & tricks, and tools from a company that’s never had a headquarters
11:30-11:50
Chris Aniszczyk (Twitter) Crafting an Open Source Program and Culture from Scratch: Lessons Learned at Twitter
11:50-12:10
Coffee break
Part Two:
Scaling Beer
12:10-12:25
Brewer
12:25-12:30
Brewer
12:30-12:50
Brewer
12:50-13:10
Brewer
13:10-13:15
Steve Taylor
Part Three:
Everything You Wanted To Know About Craft Beer Brewing
13:15-13:30
Panel with the brewers Q&A re. brewing, distributing, scaling and even protection of IP
Lunch
13:30-14:30
14:30-14:50
Blaine Cook & Maureen Evans (Poeti.ca)
Creating collaborative spaces to get work done
Part Four:
Afternoon Social
Between 14:50 – 17:00 “Swift Half” aka lightnings talks intersperse social time:
15:30-16:00 Magic Tea Break
Lee Bofkin (Global Street Art) – platforms and economics of public craft
Steve O’Grady (RedMonk) – New Kingmakers
Daniel Soltis (Moving Brands) - Scaling from one to some: digital tools for physical making