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Being The Trainer

Being the Trainer

Last week, for the first time, along with another colleague Alice, I ran an internal 2 day training course titled ‘Skills for the Agile Developer’. Funny how in an industry full of men, it was the two female developers who jumped at the chance to present the course.

Frightening talk

First Lightening (Frightening?!) Talk

“Hello, my name is Georgina and this is my first lightening talk!”

Today I did my first lightening talk. Boy did it feel good!

GDCR 2014

First Facilitation

“I thought you worked in HR when you walked in” is the comment I remember the most about the global day of code retreat 2014… Ok guys, a piece of advice. If you think this when a lady walks into a hands on coding session (before she has even spoken), then do that - think it - don’t say it!

Refactoring with a twist

Reverse Refactoring

Having been asked to facilitate a kata at work, I was wracking my brains thinking of something different to do. Everyone has been through the Roman Numeral kata many a time. I wanted something more unique, memorable and above all fun…

The First SoCraTes Uk

Socrates uk

I made the brave decision to go the first Socrates UK conference last weekend. Brave because I knew there would be nothing but men there, and also brave because I knew it would be full of people who knew more than me.