Wednesday, January 8, 2020
5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, Beer and Networking
6:00-6:15: Announcements
6:15-7:45: Qualities of a Highly Effective Architect
Many developers aspire to become architects. Some of us serve currently as architects while the rest of us may hope to become one someday. We all have worked with architects, some good, and some that could be better. What are the traits of a good architect? What are the skills and qualities we should pick to become a very good one? Come to this presentation to learn about things that can make that journey to be a successful architect a pleasant one.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, co-founder of the devdotnext software conference, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com.
7:45: Door prizes
* IntelliJ IDE License (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)
* Pluralsight Subscription provided by DevelopIntelligence (http://www.developintelligence.com/)
8:15: After Meeting Networking
After meeting networking sponsored by Okta (https://developer.okta.com/). We meet at Ale House at Amato’s (2501 16th St, Denver, CO 80211).