Career and Life Management

Paul M. Jones

Saturday 3 March 2012 from 15:15 to 01:02

Talk in English - US at Day Camp 4 Developers #4: Business 101 for Developers
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Rob Allen at 15:35 on 3 Mar 2012

Fantastic talk with lots of practical tips and tricks.

Michelangelo van Dam at 15:35 on 3 Mar 2012

A great round-up of important additional things you need to remind yourself of working for yourself. A great presentation by the great Paul M. Jones!!!

Dirk Haun at 15:36 on 3 Mar 2012

Probably the most directly useful talk of the day. Thanks a lot.

Adam Culp at 15:36 on 3 Mar 2012

Great job on a very needed talk. Many areas to cover, and a job well done.

Brent Vardy at 15:37 on 3 Mar 2012

Very valuable advise. Great presentation.

Peter Briggs at 15:38 on 3 Mar 2012

Excellent talk with lots of good points - not sure I agree with everything but certainly lots to think about. Great presentation to end the day with - thanks Paul for a thought-provoking talk.

Jacques at 15:38 on 3 Mar 2012

Always an amazing. I have not seen a more informed and engaging presenter.

Frank Rietta at 15:39 on 3 Mar 2012

Paul! Thank you. Great talk.

Stefan Poggenpohl at 15:39 on 3 Mar 2012

Excellent Talk! Inspiring and very useful advice.

Chris Armitage at 15:42 on 3 Mar 2012

Great talk and content, even the parts that were US-centric can carry over to us Brits.

Khayrattee Wasseem at 15:47 on 3 Mar 2012

GREAT inspiring session with lots of advice.
Paul did a FANTASTIC job!

Paul M. Jones (Speaker) at 16:11 on 3 Mar 2012

One of the questions was about professional development. Here is the formal professional development ladder I mentioned:

http://www.construx.com/professionaldevelopment

(Construx is the company of Steve McConnell, who wrote such books as Code Complete.)

My own informal proessional development library is composed of these books among others, in no particular order

- Code Complete (McConnell)
- The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt & Thomas)
- Peopleware (DeMarco & Lister)
- The Inmates Are Running The Asylum (Cooper)
- The Mythical Man Month (Brooks)
- Software Estimation (McConnell)
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Design (Fowler)

Hope that helps!

Lorna Mitchell at 16:20 on 3 Mar 2012

Thanks for making me really think tonight! As well as the financial planning aspect, which I know I have been letting slide while I started my business and had so little money, you have reminded me that I must read and think as well as just code in order to grow

Patrick van Kouteren at 09:55 on 4 Mar 2012

Kind of a wake-up talk from one of my favorite DC4D speakers. It's not all about developing and making money. Quite some good practical tips to settle your life and business aspects to be prepared for things you rather don't want to think about, but have to.
Hope to hear you again at the next DC4D!