Let's stop making each other feel stupid / Clare Sudbery #id24 2022

We work in an industry where we judge one another constantly for being stupid. And yet, there are a million different paths through software development. The skills we don’t need now are necessarily forgotten, or delegated to someone else. And that’s fine.

Instead of judging people for their ignorance, let’s help them to feel excited about all the new things they’ll discover. Instead of saying “For God’s sake, you don’t know that?” let’s say “Fantastic! Lucky you. You get to learn something. What can I do to help?”

About the speaker
Clare Sudbery is an independent technical coach with 22 years of software engineering experience. She specialises in TDD, refactoring, continuous integration and other eXtreme Programming (XP) practices.

In 2009, Clare abandoned IT to retrain as a high school maths teacher… but quickly returned to software, gaining new energy via XP. Clare runs the Coding Black Females’ Return to Tech programme and co-ran Made Tech’s academy. She has a passion for helping under-represented groups to flourish in tech.

Clare hosted Season One of the acclaimed Making Tech Better podcast. She’s also a published novelist and has presented workshops and talks at several national and international events and conferences.

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Links shared during the talk:
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LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/lin-csudbery