My keynote at phpDay 2011 in Verona, Italy. I meant to stress the relevance of social skills in deplying technical skills, as a company or as an individual. This session was the most rated, with an average rating of 5 on 5: http://joind.in/talk/view/2998

1. Many to Many
No Man is an Island
Jacopo Romei

2. U.S. Airways 1549

4. United 173

5. Expertise
Social skills

6. Expertise
enhanced or overridden by
Social skills

7. Expertise
enhanced or overridden by
Social skills

8. Focus

9. Genius is overrated

10. Genius

11. is

12. overrated

13. Genius
concept as an instance of
the Dunning-Kruger effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

14. How do companies manage expertise?

15. Communities of practice

16. Reciprocity vs. Remuneration

17. Are developers an asset or a cost?

18. “What if my company doesn't invest
in my expertise but still I am
afraid to move?”

19. “What if I am a freelancer?”

20. Who's Jacopo?!
A ut h
Developer or
PHP
Agile Co
ach

21. I am a nerd.

22. was
t I
ugh
tho
I am a nerd.

24. Source: http://www.xkcd.com/747/

26. Times for lone coders are gone.

27. Gone.

29. Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Sheldon is also a difficult person to work with.
In "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation",
Sheldon finds out that the others have tampered
with his experiment, in order to make him more
pleasant to work with. He also found out that
they were considering killing him and had even
come up with a plan to do so. When Leonard comes
up with an idea for an iPhone application to
solve physics problems, Sheldon immediately
tries to seize control of it. When Leonard makes
it clear that he is in charge, Sheldon continues
to annoy the others, resulting in him getting
fired by Leonard. When he asks why, Leonard
tells him "[he is] impossible to work with".

30. Best software today
is made by groups of people
working on a reciprocity basis

31. That's why I join communities

32. GrUSP

33. GrUSP
Symfony CMF dev

34. Lean Agile Italia
SIAgile
Symfony GrUSP Symfony Italia
REST-IT
Lean Italia Jackalope
ALE Networrk
Symfony CMF dev
PUG Roma Extreme Programming Italia

35. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Stay on the bleeding edge

36. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Cooperate on developing
standards bottom-up

37. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Double check your ideas

38. “Valuable ideas can
withstand any scrutiny”
Kent Beck, father of TDD

39. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Base your job on people

40. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Learn customizing known
solution in your context

41. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Hire distant people

42. Partecipating in the right community may help
you to
Develop your expertise

43. Communication

44. Respect

45. Courage

46. Feedback

47. Simplicity

48. Extreme Programming values

49. What I like most of PHP?

50. YOU!

52. Thank you!!!
http://joind.in/talk/view/2998
@jacoporomei