2 Talks at the Tulsa Tech Fest – Making Scrum Work!
July 17, 2018 Category: Events 1 Comment »
What are you doing this Friday? Nope. Change your plans and come hang out in Tulsa. It’s time for the 13th Annual Tulsa Tech Fest. That’s right 13 years in a row! (not that I’ve been there every year – but a lot of them). Honestly, where else can you 17 tracks and 68 different sessions all for the price of a can of food (Every Year the Tulsa Tech Fest Community does a food drive as a part of the event… literally, bring a can of food, get in for free – it’s awesome!)
This year I’m opening and closing the Agile Track
I’ll be kicking things off with an overview of Scrum and talk about some practical patterns and strategies to scale Scrum to larger Enterprises companies. We’ll also touch on frameworks like LeSS and SAFe.
(slides)
Later in the day I’ll be giving a brand new talk that I recently debuted in Ft. Worth. It’s a lot of the tips and tricks that I’ve used through out the years to really make Scrum work.
This talk is a lot of fun, and if you’re in the area – I think you’re really going to enjoy it. (slides coming soon)
Here’s the official description:
Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough struterehcture for teams to be able to focus their innovation. By design Scrum is incomplete, come learn some of the tips and tricks (Power Moves) that have helped accelerate teams all over the world. 10 key moves that have been consistently helpful as Caleb has lead, consulted and coached Scrum teams world wide.
We’ll dive in to areas like, key ways to improve stand up, how to forecast and effectively communicate progress to the business, protect your quality and make the most of your Scrum team and the Scrum framework.
Though, as my friend Dave put it…
Yeah.. he’s probably right about that.. See you there, and expect to see more than 10 Power Moves. 
I’m really looking forward to presenting, meeting new people, seeing old friends, and all of the conversations that tend to surround these events.
Hope you can make it!
Development Matters – Keynote from the Tulsa TechFest
August 9, 2016 Category: Events No Comments »
Last Friday I was privileged to give the closing keynote at the Tulsa Tech Fest. In the past I’ve spoken about things like building a great culture, 10 practices that all developers should be doing – even talks specifically about dependency injection and refactoring code. This year it was more about Why all of this stuff matters.
As a developer, it’s easy to think about how big the universe is, how much there is to do, and wonder if these things really matter. So we take a look at some examples in our industry on why UX matters, Clean Code, Secure Coding, Engineering Practices, Building a Culture, Continuous Learning.. and finally, being a Professional. These things matter.
If you were there – hope you enjoyed it!
I also gave 2 other talks that day.
Scaling Scrum
Prototyping, Innovate Collaborate
In addition, several people from my new job found out that I was speaking in Tulsa, and pulled together to create an entirely new track this year! So cool. More about Linux Academy and my new job coming soon!
Speaking Tuesday in Tulsa–Code to DI For!
June 27, 2016 Category: Events No Comments »
Tomorrow night I’ll be speaking at the Tulsa .NET User Group covering Dependency Injection for Modern Applications. This talk is a lot of fun, and you’ll walk away better equipped to write better software and conquer the world! I love the community in Tulsa, as a former president of the Tulsa DNUG, frequent speaker and keynoter at the Tulsa Tech Fest, in a lot of ways – going to Tulsa is like going home.
I’m looking forward to seeing the familiar friends, and meeting new ones! If you’re new to dependency injection, this talk is the perfect primer. If you’re already using DI, then this should solidify what you already know, and might even introduce you to some new concepts. Here are the slides and code, if you’d like an early peek.
The single greatest thing that you can do to make your code more testable and healthy is to start taking a Dependency Injection approach to writing software
–Real World .NET, C# and Silverlight
Wrox Press 2012
Be sure to RSVP so they know you’re coming!
Tulsa Tech Fest: Opening and Closing Keynotes!
August 13, 2015 Category: Events 2 Comments »
Last Friday I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the 10th annual Tulsa Tech Fest. #ttf2015
Here are my slides to the closing keynote: Get Your Hero Groove On. This is where I try to inspire people to take advantage of the super powers that we have as developers to shape our world, influence our culture and chose the practices and processes to make that happen!
This was a fun talk – I hope I get the chance to do this again and really dig in to some of these concepts.
I’m glad people seemed to have a good time!
This was Tulsa’s 10th TechFest… I presented at the 1st one 10 years ago, at the following one and at least 3 other Tech Fests.. including doing the lunch time keynote 3 years ago.
Morning Keynote: 10 Reasons Your Software Sucks
I was originally only going to do the closing keynote, but 2 weeks ago, the morning keynote presenter had to drop out. I was bummed about that (since he’s a friend of mine, and I was looking forward to catch up). When David asked if I could cover the morning session, I was glad to had this talk ready to go!
Things have changed a lot in 10 years.. twitter was a lot of fun to follow through out the day!
Although the hashtag was being used by another event in Europe at the same time.. so this came up right after the closing keynote.. I have to admit, this is about how I felt.
Extra huge thanks goes out to David for organizing this great event 10 years in a row.. and to the whole Tulsa community for making it happen!
Tulsa Tech Fest 2014 – Scaling Scrum, Modern Web, Prototyping UX
July 24, 2014 Category: Events 1 Comment »
Two years ago I gave the key note at the Tulsa Tech Fest – it was a lot of fun and I’m excited to be presenting there again this year!
This year I’ll be giving 3 talks.
Scaling Scrum with UX and other Key Players
Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation. Scrum is optimized for teams for teams of 5 to 9 people. Making Scrum work with larger teams or in large enterprise environments brings its own set of challenges. This talk presents 3 patterns used on enterprise teams to scale Scrum effectively with global teams.
Update: The Slides are now on slide share.
Modern Web Development: Testable WebForms with Model View Presenter Pattern (MVP)
The world is moving towards ASP.NET MVC.. but what about your legacy WebForms development. What are the things you can do today to make your WebForms more testable, reliable and even increase the SEO and usability of your WebForms. This talk will walk through applying the Model View Presenter pattern to your ASP.NET WebForm applications and introduce you to some additional enhancements that Microsoft has made to WebForms recently to make your site and life that much better!
Update: The slides are now on slideshare.
Prototype, Collaborate, Innovate
A UX Story from the worlds most used white labeled travel site. How we use Sketches, Prototyping and Innovation Games to collaborate with our customers and experience innovation breakthroughs.
Update: The slides are on slideshare!
Hope to see you there!
Delivering the Keynote at the Tulsa Tech Fest
October 11, 2012 Category: Events No Comments »
Tomorrow (October 12th) Caleb will be at the Tulsa Tech Fest delivering the keynote. This is the 7th year for the Tulsa Tech Fest and each year it get’s better! Normally bringing in 500 to 1000 attendees and over 64 available sessions, this event is a great opportunity to learn and grow with tracks covering every topic from Database Design to Social Media, UX to Advanced Coding practices and IT Pro infrastructure to Windows 8, Cloud and Mobile!
Caleb will be speaking on the 10 Reasons that Software Sucks with an election year twist!
If you’re in the Tulsa area – this would be a great conference to attend – be sure to stop by and say hi! Also, If you attend the keynote – We’d love your feedback on SpeakerMix!
We’ll be in Tulsa Tomorrow – 2 Sessions!
May 26, 2011 Category: Events No Comments »
We’re excited that Caleb will be speaking in Tulsa tomorrow at the Tulsa School of Dev.
He already blogged about it; he’ll be speaking on “10 Reasons Your Software Sucks” and then round things out with with “Taming the Legacy Code Beast”. These are both information packed talks with real word strategies to learn from.
Be sure to register now and then check out the other sessions. It’s going to be a full day! Make sure you stop by and say hi!
Community Leadership Town Hall at the Tulsa Tech Fest
November 10, 2010 Category: Events No Comments »
As Caleb pointed out, this year our friend Jay Smith has taken on the goal of spear heading a Community Leadership Town hall at the Tulsa Tech Fest.
What is a Community Leadership Town Hall? Jay’s post summarizes it well
The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.
Bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share to the Community Leadership Town Hall – Tulsa.
We know that it’s no small task to pull so many different leaders together, provide content for everyone and keep all of the participants engaged. We’re looking forward to attending and participating! Hope to see you there.
Speaking at Tulsa Tech Fest this Friday
November 10, 2010 Category: Events No Comments »
This Friday Caleb will be presenting at the 5th annual Tulsa Tech Fest. We’re excited to continue our involvement in the greater technical community, as an INETA speaker Caleb has presented at User Groups all over north America since 2005. This is an exciting time and a fun event packed with multiple tracks, check out the complete agenda, we’re sure that their will be something for everyone! Caleb will be presenting on “10 Reasons that your software sucks (and how to make it better)” and “Real World Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight” – both of these talks are a lot of fun and we can’t wait to catch up with everyone there. Be sure to stop by and say hi!
Slides: Real World Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight
October 12, 2010 Category: News No Comments »
Here are the slides from the presentation that Caleb gave at the North TX Silverlight User Group yesterday.
If you can make it to Tulsa next month, we’ll be there to hear Caleb give an enhanced version of this talk at the Tulsa Tech Fest on November 12th. This is the 5th year of the Tulsa Tech Fest – it’s always a packed event and a lot of fun. If you can make it, be sure to stop by and say hi!
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!