Bio
Scott builds dev teams. You might call him The Teammaker, though nobody else does. Scotch Tape, Scottish, and Scooter are more popular choices. If he wasn’t a Director of Engineering at aware3, he’d probably be in DevOps by now. If not in DevOps, he’d probably be a carpenter. When he’s not accidentally implementing #NoEstimates at work, his wife, dog, and two young impersonators fill his life with love. FILDI like Ze Frank.
Videos of talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3KJienAO7Cjz_qwqq9-WGe9zbW9pG5ex Slides: https://slides.com/scottconnerly
My Talks
Estimates are BS
#NoEstimates is not just possible, it’s delightful. I used to think it was a pipe dream. All it takes, is giving up the assumption that it’s possible for humans to accurately estimate things.
Fly-by-Wire: Running a Dev Team You've Never Met
Remote work is powerful; its not the future, it has arrived. Collaboration, trust, and Agile delivery are all key, so how do you maintain that when your 2-pizza team has never shared a pizza? I'll ...
Growing a Dev Team from Bootstrap to Enterprise
Tooling, testing, processes, and standards are all crucial to keep enterprise software running reliably. But at what stage in the new-product process do you integrate each, and to what degree? This...
Not Nearly Frightened Enough: Modern Threat Modeling
More things are PII (Personally Identifiable Information) than you realize. Hackers can target your business for any reason. Vulnerabilities are more frequent and more severe than ever. Even the be...
The Two Question Code Quiz: How to Interview Programmers Effectively
How to design a technical interview, with emphasis on what you're trying to get out of each question. Code quizzes and behavioral interviewing are controversial because they have been misused, I'll...
Zen and the Art of Docker
A primer on the basic concepts of Docker containers, the Docker Way to orchestrate services, how to set up a manageable local dev environment, and finally a step-by-step guide to bring your contain...