Bio
Ivett Ördög is the founder and facilitator of Lean Poker events. She is also an Engineering Manager at Contentful, and she has been a frequent speaker at software conferences around Europe. Her passion for short feedback loops drove her to create Lean Poker, a workshop where developers have the opportunity to experiment with continuous delivery in a safe environment. Ivett is the creator and host of the Cup of Code YouTube channel inspiring the next generation of developers to broaden their knowledge.
My Talks
An introduction to Deep Learning
Deep learning has been in the news a lot lately, but in most cases the articles are hyperbolic and don't represent the technology well. This introduction will give you a better understanding of wha...
A step beyond modules
Services add an extra abstraction layer beyond modules that is immensely useful in structuring your code base. Understanding the characteristics of this extra layer, finding the traps along the way...
Bootcamp: protecting the engineering culture during hyper growth
The engineering culture of a company might be a key to it's success, yet as hyper growth kicks in it becomes hard to keep it while doubling the number of engineers every year. So the question becom...
Delivering value early and often in practice (Lean Poker)
This day long coding event will help you with putting the theory into practice when it comes to delivering value early and often to your organization.
How I learned to love legacy code
I used to complain a lot about legacy code, but I was wrong. Not because if something generates revenue, then it should be loved! No... that's not a real excuse for bad code. There is a lot more d...
How to sell a big refactor or rewrite to the business?
Is there a situation where a larger rewrite actually makes sense? Is the idea that we should not have refactor or rewrite projects dogma that we have been following without examining nuance, or we ...
Innovation via a method of exploration
Uncertainty is at the very heart of innovation. In the talk I will define an abstract method and I will show you examples how it appears in different disciplines within the tech industry. I will ch...
Lean Poker: A framework for learning how to deliver value early and often in practice
To help developers and product people adopt better workflows for delivering we have created a workshop where teams can compete against each other and learn things in practice along the way. In this...
Lean Poker - learn how to harness the power of continuous deployment and agile in practice
Lean Poker is a day long coding challenge that's not only fun, but also provides a safe environment in which participants can practice continuous deployment and fast delivery of valuable software.
Learning to fall
A story of how we learned to build resilient micro-services even if they depend on other micro-services with a weaker SLA. First I talk about the bad practices to set the stage for the motivation b...
Three implementations and what you can learn from them
Let's explore three different solutions to the same problem that are substantially different. One functional programming solution, one solution running on the GPU and a SQL query. All three deliver...
Timezones are awesome - just kidding!
Execute a given command at the exact time the client requested! Do it once and only once at regular intervals. Sounds easy? Think again! It took us 3 weeks to implement just that correctly, and we ...
Whatever did deep learning do for us
I introduce deep learning through hands on real world applications. This talk is designed to get people interested, and give them pointers on how to get started within a few months time. Unlike oth...
What transitioning from male to female taught me about leadership
Not many leaders transition in their mid thirties but I did and it gave me a unique perspective on courage, humility, diversity and inclusion in the context of leadership. In this talk I will tell ...
Your hiring process is broken, and here is how you fix it
One of the secrets to a successful company is getting the right people on the bus. Yet most companies make the same mistakes when hiring developers. I will take you on a journey from an ineffective...