CITCONEurope2016AhaMoments

• 2 minute rule
• getting old, I'm senior in this group!
• so many people! Mailing list with over 1,000 people
• If you're frustrated by something trivial, you're probably frustrated by something else
• Everything will work out. I need to hear something several times.
• Benefits of one source repository
• Knowledge comes from learning. Experience comes from Living. CI is about collaboration.
• I realized I have a mentor.
• Different pairing patterns.
• Jenkins is powerful
• Others know a lot about Jenkins.
• The free-form worked. Ball and board pairing
• Try to understand someone's reasons
• Can plan observations
• The conference format worked
• Open Space way better
• TDD ladder of inference to train yourself
• Amount of information we don't share with anyone
• Qualitative Data
• HyperV is popular
• mutiny is self-organizing and anarchy is constant revolution
• I ask the wrong questions
• If I don't share the story I'm telling myself other people will make up their own story.
• Session notes for testing
• Using communication can change things
• Ideas for guiding new testers
• As a tester I should pair with devs
• Can't do CI with feature branches
• Can apply user stories and such to my life
• I can bring my kid to a conference
• The community isn't defined by the medium but by the interactions
• I already have mentors
• Have a community where we share our experiences
• Romania is a different timezone from Croatia
• Realized I can learn even on my 5th CITCON
• When you make a proposal then your beliefs weren't transmitted unless you transmit them
• I should slow down and pairing will help
• Different people can come to different conclusions from the same data
• Vertical slicing of stories
• Really liked the conference
• Switch from TeamCity to Jenkins
• How things can turn out if you give people ownership (structure of conference)
• What people valued in a community
• Missed a session because of schedule
• Talking about frustration help me get over it
• There will always be a topic about tools
• "I do bad things, but I'm not a bad person"
• Steps in finding a mentor. Helped me find a path
• Getting out of my comfort zone
• Interactions in a community are more important than size
• Pair programming practices
• Learned to value communication more...and I'm Finnish!
• People organize around problems and not solutions
• Topics on the schedule can change really fast!