Exploring Academia
Last week I attended the Multikonferenz Software Engineering & Management 2015 in Dresden hosted by the Gesellschaft für Informatik:
My topic was Test Driven Development, but I had to rework my original talk to fit into 20 minutes and to be much less technical. As a result I created a completely new fast paced talk which draws a story line from DevOps over Test Driven Infrastructure Development into Risk Mitigation:
The conference is very different from the tech conferences I usually attend. First, I really was the only person in a T-Shirt :-/. Second, I apparently was invited as the "practitioner" while everybody else was there to talk about academic research, mostly in the form of a bachelor or master thesis.
As much as the topics where interesting, as little was there anything even remotely related to my "practical" work :-(
I still find it interesting to better combine the different worlds (academic and practical), this conference still has some way to go if it wants to achieve this goal. Maybe it would help to team up with an established tech conference and simply hold two conferences at the same time and place to allow people to freely wander between the worlds.
I also had some spare time and visited the Gläserne Manufaktur where VW assembles Phaeton and Bentley cars. They take pride in the fact that 95% of the work is done manually, but sadly nobody asked me about my T-Shirt:
I am squinting so much because that days had a really bright sun. In the background is a XL1, a car that consumes less than 1ℓ of fuel per 100km.
My topic was Test Driven Development, but I had to rework my original talk to fit into 20 minutes and to be much less technical. As a result I created a completely new fast paced talk which draws a story line from DevOps over Test Driven Infrastructure Development into Risk Mitigation:
The conference is very different from the tech conferences I usually attend. First, I really was the only person in a T-Shirt :-/. Second, I apparently was invited as the "practitioner" while everybody else was there to talk about academic research, mostly in the form of a bachelor or master thesis.
As much as the topics where interesting, as little was there anything even remotely related to my "practical" work :-(
I still find it interesting to better combine the different worlds (academic and practical), this conference still has some way to go if it wants to achieve this goal. Maybe it would help to team up with an established tech conference and simply hold two conferences at the same time and place to allow people to freely wander between the worlds.
I also had some spare time and visited the Gläserne Manufaktur where VW assembles Phaeton and Bentley cars. They take pride in the fact that 95% of the work is done manually, but sadly nobody asked me about my T-Shirt:
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