Quick reminder it's NWRUG tonight. Starting at 7pm. See you there,
Ben On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 10:14, Ben Aldred <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi people, > > It’s NWRUG week which means we will be gathering for some Ruby-based talks > and chat this Thursday at Plant NOMA <https://www.plantnoma.com/> from > 7pm. > > This month’s NWRUG is hosting a talk by Mark Kirschstein who is heavily > involved with XPMan. He knows his stuff about creating and working in > highly functioning software development teams. > > *All In - Reflections on Software Development Through the Eyes of an > ex-Poker Player* > > At its core, software development is rational logical. However, that core > is smaller than most think. Knowing the rules of programming, language > syntax and grammar etc, is only the first step. As soon as a project has > more than one person working on it - or indeed using it - Human behaviour > and statistical variance (the fancy term for 'luck') enter the equation. > > >> At its core, poker is rational and logical, but knowing the rules of > poker is only the first step towards playing it. Human behaviour must be > taken into account to pick the best next move. Statistical variance means > that the best move doesn't always win. > > This is a non technical talk about managing software projects and teams. > It includes examples and anecdotes of mishaps and misfortunes of both > software and poker, examining the flawed logic that lead to the mistakes, > and some suggestions how to correct that logic. > > More details on nwrug.org > <https://nwrug.org/events/november-2018-reflections-on-software-development> > > And if you like that sort of thing, you can signal your attendance over on > Meetup > <https://www.meetup.com/North-West-Ruby-User-Group/events/vxpqzpyxpbtb/>. > > Cheers, > > Ben > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
