Speaker: Titus Winters

Audience level: [ Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced ]

Let’s face it, working in our industry is terrifying. Unlike most professions, software engineers are regularly asked to automate away major parts of their own jobs. Common practices and critical technologies change every five years or so, threatening to obviate our existing skills and mastery. Even more scary, most of the interesting development work in our field are things that we can just barely accomplish, since the easier tasks are already automated and everything harder is impossible. In this talk I’ll shine a light on fear, uncertainty, and doubt in tech, before suggesting practices and tools to change the mood. We will revisit research on the importance of teamwork, culture, and communication, highlighting why basic tools for culture and understanding are powerful weapons in our fight against fear in tech.