I spoke at FullStack 2016 about traits that can make developers ineffective and how to guard against these challenges. Also, attempted to describe ways of understanding the human psyche.

1. 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY INEFFECTIVE DEVELOPERS
Kitson P. Kelly (@kitsonk) - CTO @SitePen

2. ABOUT ME…
➤CTO at SitePen
➤Project Lead for Dojo 2
➤Formally ran technology for
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4. 1. FOMO
➤ The Fear of Missing Out
defined as a fear of regret, which
may lead to a compulsive
concern that one might miss an
opportunity for social
interaction, a novel experience,
profitable investment or other
satisfying events

5. 2. ERGO A BLOG LEGERE…
➤ “Lots of people are using…”
➤ “Hooli built…”
➤ “Exciting news! Meteor is now
one of the top ten most-starred
projects on all of GitHub.”

6. 3. “BECAUSE MANAGEMENT SAYS…”
➤ Absolving responsibility because
“someone made me do it…”
➤ There are right ways and wrong
ways though to land this
message.
➤ (Most) People don’t get up in the
morning to do a crappy job.

7. 4. FALLACY OF COMPOSITION
➤ The fallacy of composition arises
when one infers that something
is true of the whole from the fact
that it is true of some part of the
whole (or even of every proper
part).
➤ “I am going to stand up at the
concert to get a better view” says
everyone and we all end up back
at the start.

8. 5. THE EXPERT BEGINNER
➤Someone who makes a
career out of always
being semi-competent
and never mastering
anything…

9. DREYFUS MODEL OF SKILL ACQUISITION
Novice
Advanced Beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning

10. DREYFUS MODEL OF SKILL ACQUISITION
Novice
Advanced Beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Expert Beginner
http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/

11. 6. UN-SELF AWARE
➤ Constantly Defensive
➤ Must Micromanage
➤ Make Excuses
➤ You have been called a bully more
than once
➤ You’re in denial
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-signs-you-lack-self-awareness-joanne-love

12. PERSONALITY
Extrovert Introvert
Thinking Feeling

13. INSIGHTS
Red
(E-T)
Yellow
(E-F)
Blue
(I-T)
Green
(I-F)
https://www.insights.com/
https://www.16personalities.com/

14. 7. ACTIVELY DISENGAGED
➤ Not only unhappy, but a
vicious halo of melancholy
that effects others. Maybe
prone to actively undermining
others.
➤ Do you and everyone around
you a favour and go do
something else, please!

15. 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY INEFFECTIVE DEVELOPERS
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