Career Development for Developer Geeks

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Some engineers within the field of software engineering work long stressful
hours for poor financial and other rewards and with little respect from other
people in the organisations they work for.

In the vast majority of cases like this, the situation is result of a
failure of the engineer to manage various aspects of their own position.
In particular, a failure to manage the expectations of their managers and
co-workers, a failure to plan and manage their own projects, a failure
to manage their own professional development and a failure to take control
of their own careers.

This talk will cover the causes to the above problems and explore
solutions that will allow engineers to get control of their careers and
work environments.

This talk is a slightly modified and updated version of the talk given at
the Sydney Linux User's Group in December of 2005.

Stream: Other

Paper: Career Development for Developer Geeks

Erik de Castro Lopo graduated from the University of Newcastle in 1992
with a B.Eng (hons) in Computer Engineering. He used various unices at
university and found Linux in 1995. He released libsndfile, his first
open source/free software project in 1999 and has contributed bug fixes,
patches and code to numerous FOSS projects since.
Professionally, Erik has worked as a hardware design engineer, a senior
level support engineer and as a software engineer. He has experienced
developement projects which ranged from the soul destroying white knuckle
terror of a project seriously off the rails to projects that are
reasonably well organised and well executed.
After experiencing this wide range of projects Erik attempts the fix
problems in the way the project is managed as early as possible so that
projects can be transformed from hellish to sensible.