The book Internal Tech Conferences by Victoria Morgan-Smith and Matthew Skelton is now available in print and ebook formats from Amazon stores worldwide (US, Canada, DE, FR, UK and other territories, Book Depository, Bookshop and on e-book stores, releasing 16 November 2020.
We have published a new version of the book Better Whiteboard Sketches by Matthew Skelton with a new chapter: Use colour but think in monochrome and new exercises for Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
Go to https://leanpub.com/BetterWhiteboardSketches/ to buy the book or download a sample chapter. All purchases are covered by the Leanpub money-back guarantee.
An internal tech conference is an event that is run by and for people within a single organisation. It can have a variety of content types that any conference can - it could be speaks, talks, it could be workshops, discussion panels - you name it. The main outcome of it is that you are seeking to spread knowledge across the organisation, across different teams.
Zühlke has been running internal tech conferences for several years to accelerate learning across different teams in the ten countries in which Zühlke operates. The event in 2019 was the largest yet, with about 900 participants and dozens of sessions. We asked Steve Freeman (Distinguished Consultant at Zühlke) about the role played by internal tech conferences at Zühlke.
Fran Buontempo is the author of Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers, published in 2019 by The Pragmatic Programmer. She is the editor of ACCU’s Overload magazine. She has published articles and given talks centered on technology and machine learning. With a PhD in data mining, she has been programming professionally since the 1990s. During her career as a programmer, she has championed unit testing, mentored newer developers, deleted quite a bit of code and fixed a variety of bugs.
We interviewed Victoria Morgan-Smith at Continuous Lifecycle London conference about her book, Internal Tech Conferences.
If a company is thinking about running an internal tech conference, the first thing I would suggest is that they, of course, buy the book! It is full of all kinds of useful information and advice including a toolkit at the back which will give them a structure for planning the event. That's the first thing.
Conflux has acquired Skelton Thatcher Publications, a pioneering publisher of books for engineers and practitioners in the software industry.
The Team Guide books from Skelton Thatcher Publications cover Software Operability, Metrics for Business Decisions, Software Testability, and Software Releasability, all areas that are often overlooked by organisations building software systems.
