Not so many years have passed since we started programming computers and even less since programming computers has been recognised as a profession. Even still, so many things depend on the quality of our work. What does it mean to be professional? What are we expected to do? Are we up for the task? I will talk about my journey of becoming the programmer of my dreams, the obstacles I've faced and the strategies that I've applied to overcome them

1. Gabriele Lana
gabriele.lana@cleancode.it !
gabrielelana "
gabrielelana #

3. 1985

4. ! EthicS
&
Professionalism

5. ℹ

6. !
Ethics

7. disposable
mediocrity
excellence
ethics
Commodity

9. 👤
individualism?

10. Jessica Kerr
EXPLORE DDD CONFERENCE DENVER 2018
Keynote: "The Origins of Opera & the Future of
Programming"

11. great
teams
great
PEOPLE
make
make

12. A
"Clean
slate"

13. shared
responsibility
individual
responsibility
VS?

15. PROFESSIONALISM
!

16. character
behaviour
(professional
programmer)
(professional
programmer)

17. character
behaviour
(professional
programmer)
(professional
programmer)
role
models

18. 📖
education

19. what?
foundational
knowledge
pragmatic
knowledge

20. how
much
time?
"a monad is just
a monoid in the
category of
endofunctors"
vs
haskell:
~2h / day
~5D / Week
~500H (2018)

22. ⌖
work
PROFESSIONALly

23. Agile?(Methodologies)

24. "a study
revealed that
we switch
between
computer
applications
566 times
during the
average
workday."

25. meetings
chat messages
notifications
open office
e-mails

26. "productivity
is managing
energy,
attention and
time dedicated
to the most
important
things you
can do."

27. value
focus
busy
work
collaborative
work
deep
work
useless
work

28. value
focus
busy
work
collaborative
work
deep
work
useless
work
goal

29. team and personal
retrospectives
vs
"busy work drains energy
and reduce happiness"
busy
work
collaborative
work
deep
work
useless
work

30. definition of done
-
time box
vs
busy
work
collaborative
work
deep
work
useless
work

31. busy
work
collaborative
work
deep
work
useless
work
allocate time
intentionally
-
meditate
vs

32. ♥
wrapping up

33. if you want to find
the right team start
searching for the
right people, but
most of all....
be the right
person

34. questions?