SESSION + Live Q&A
Improving Life in Smaller, Heterogeneous Projects
Many presentations on Developer Experience focus on a single large ongoing project, or a particular methodology or toolset. The consulting world faces a multitude of fixed length projects of various sizes, with an astoundingly diverse array of constraints and givens. How do we ensure a good Developer Experience in the face of waves of fresh complexity and chaos?
Speaker
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James Uther
Senior Developer @LShift
James started programming as a child when games were needed for the family Apple ][, and ended up with a PhD in Computer Science. He worked on the web when it was young and on smartphones when they were new (and not very smart), and he has done stints of system architecture and UI, but always...
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