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What Makes a Great Audience

As an audience participates, they invest in and engage with the talk, adding energy, nuance, and richness that makes the whole experience better for everyone.

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Women and the Software Industry: The Truth about Stereotypes, Retention, and the Gender Gap

How stereotype threat keeps women from staying in the software industry, and how we can fight it with education, encouragement, and networking.

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Self-Taught Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation?

Every software developer needs a basic understanding of computer science in four essential areas.

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Applying Agile to Hardware Development

The motivations and principles of Agile are applicable to many engineering disciplines outside of software development, including hardware itself.

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See One, Do One, Teach One – Not Just for the Medical Profession

Take some time, give lunch & learns, set aside the last 15 minutes of a meeting, or just sit down with a colleague and “teach”.

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The Ubiquitous Test Suite

We’ve recently found automated tests to be more useful than we originally realized and have started to put them to other uses.

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