It’s over but my head is still buzzing with the many presentations, interactions, ideas, conversations and laughters that we had from Thursday through Sunday at the Socratesfr conference. I had the pleasure and honor to facilitate the opening World Café and the 2 days Open Space unconference.

A glimpse of some of the sessions I attended:

  • TDD technic of the double dragon
    • an intriguing test/code/refactor technique that I still have to wrap my head around, I hope @Jonathan and I will find more occasions to approach it
  • Feedback & thoughts on deep legacy management & culture change
    • complex legacy project accross several cultures pose process, relational and personal challenges. This conversation (in the morning sun inundated patio) was rich in insights and promises
  • refactor my company kata
    • silos are a threat to any company, old or young, small or large, and they begin in the individuals. The fishbowl conversation made it easier to discover and elaborate on the many issues
  • can craft kill a startup ?
    • should we take the time to produce quality code? does quality code matter if we missed our opportunity window anyway?
    • what if writing quality code takes me less time that writing crappy code?
  • lightning talks
    • TDD is still as far as I know the practice of a minority. So why is that there are so many TDD schools ? Btw I’m from the Helping with TDD school 😇

  • code ref…toring session I knew it was late, and some wine had been had, but the imagination of some people… I swear…

  • exploring ourselves through debates
    • when you want/have to win the debate, all you can think of is how to eliminate your opponent’s argument so you don’t listen any more
    • when you want to cooperate, curiosity leads the debate, and you find yourself much closer to a solution to the problem
  • empathy toys
    • I led this session involving teams of builders and guides trying to communicate accross constraints
  • debugging communication with the 4 sides model
    • a practical session around the four sides communication model, with interesting debriefs of short and yet acute communication mishaps
  • “Test” what about it
    • I presented my ideas about tests and testing
  • Property Based Driven Development Diamond Kata
    • With quickcheck in Haskell. It was far from complete, but at least I could show how the tool work 😅
  • the mysterious container a kata in Haskell and then in Lisp
    • I presented how to create a key/value container without using any data structure at all. Some programming languages make is easier than others 😀
  • the SOTA landscape workshop
    • One of the participants shared the State of the art of his team, so we could have a go at this workshop that I systematically use at the outset of any intervention with a team.

I want to take a moment to thank all of you who participated in Socrates.fr for the trust you placed in me with facilitation, and for the amazing time that I had with you.

@Houssam Fakih you are the most efficient organizer I know and your kindness and sense of connections are amazing

@Bastien thank you for creating spaces of reflection about communication, @Remy thank you for exploring these spaces with me!

@Johan every time we speak together I learn something get new perspective, thank you !

@Elizabeth thank you for bringing your unique perspective in the conference, I wish I could have left my session to participate in the one you did on facilitating software architecture!

@Jacques your presence, energy, smarts and sense of the community change everything ! See you soon !

@Christian Ceelen I always appreciate your views on technology and especially on code

@Hadrien thank you for making Socrates even more open to new worlds

@Jalil thank you for your wisdom and your smile!

@Patrick we have to create a dojo that transcends geographical distance!

@Michel Grootjans your presentations are amazingly fun and interesting! Ook!!

@Nicolas Moreau You’re back ! Let’s do a kata !

@Sallah Kokaina I am super happy I got to connect with you !

@Tanguy I don’t care much for a go (a mistake on my part) but a lot more than your passion go makes you such an interesting person!

@Vivien thank you for sharing your experience and trusting us for advice and listening

@Woody thank you for sharing and bundling together so much knowledge about team work accross your many sessions

@Nicolas Savois thank you for showing again and again how event sourcing works!

@Pierre thank you for sharing your work experience with me, your contribution is inspiring

thank you also

  • Abdessamed Mansouri
  • Alexander Alemayhu
  • Amaury Beauchamp
  • Amirali Ghazi
  • Aurélien Mino
  • Arnaud Courtès
  • Benjamin Garnier
  • Benjamin Hugot
  • Fabien Giannesini
  • Faiçal Oudbib
  • Ferdinand Ade
  • Guillaume Lasne
  • Guillaume Lurenbaum
  • Jean
  • Jean-François VO
  • Jimmy
  • Jonathan Laurent
  • Kong To
  • Mathieu Cans
  • Matthieu Baechler
  • Maxime Reynier
  • Piumi Vincent
  • Przemysław Kozieł
  • Rokiatou Diallo
  • Ubald de Bellabre
  • Vasconcelos Silvio
  • Vianney Maynadier
  • Vincent Piumi
  • Vivien Mille

your presence, your energy and sense of sharing make it more certain to me that the developers trying to improve the state of things around them and in their work are not alone, and shouldn’t be!

See you soon!

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publié sur Linked In le 30/10/2023