Matt Eland!
Instructor @ Tech Elevator
Bio!
Matt is committed to helping people (and their code) achieve greater things. After nearly two decades of working as a software engineer, Matt put away his mechanical keyboard and made teaching others his primary job in a continuing quest to invest in the community and up-and-coming developers. Matt has been working with code since 1987 and .NET since beta 2 in 2001, yet constantly discovers new things to learn. Matt focuses on building quality software applications using C#, F#, TypeScript, Angular, Vue, and plain-old JavaScript. Matt writes regularly on software engineering at KillAllDefects.com, builds highly unusual side projects, goes on refactoring frenzies, and enjoys learning new things to share with the community at large.
Session!
Technical Debt Must Die - Communicating Code to Business Stakeholders
Our software sucks. We're up to our necks in bugs and technical debt, yet we often seem to hit roadblocks explaining things in ways that bring about meaningful change.
In this session you'll learn to gather, analyze, and interpret data in order to create effective presentations to communicate quality, technical debt, and other technical matters in ways that tell a compelling story. You’ll master how to communicate effectively with key stakeholders by taking a data-driven approach blended with storytelling techniques to bridge common gaps between development and business stakeholders. You’ll explore the 7 tools of software quality and how they can bring clarity and sanity to the decision-making process, justify paying down technical debt, and focusing on improving our software in the areas that need it most.
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