Jason Adams
Senior engineer at Impress.org with a love for mentoring and coaching growing devs, coming up with simple solutions to complex problems, and hanging out with my wife!
Using your current project to make the next one better and faster
...and other overly explained concepts
Hi! I'm Jason!
Partner & CIO at Paper Tower
WordPress Core Contributor
Team member of Piklist
Descendent of two Presidents
Big fan of designers
Twitter: @jasontheadams
My wife and I in Ireland. Highly recommend!
Let's jump right in...
This story begins in 2009
In the Detroit airport
...in the wrong airport
"Hey Jay! I lost my job!"
Tribology
The Study of Friction & Wear
We started over 6 times
Observe
Reflect
Discuss
The Learning Circle
Chronos
Kairos
What have you learned?
How will you respond?
Act
Account
Plan
Observation:
Reflection:
Discussion:
Lesson:
The goal is to grow the website portion of the business, but the web team is weakest in development.
I have a strong background in engineering. I haven't worked in web much, but I can likely help.
We all agreed that the best chance to grow the business was to step up our development.
To grow we need stronger development.
Response:
Plan:
Accountability:
Act:
We would make the changes necessary to improve development for the web team.
I will change from being the Project Manager to Lead Web Developer. The owners would provide me with what I needed to level the team up.
I will report back regularly to the owners as to the progress we're making.
We will get started immediately.
Let's pause. Questions?
Item 1:
Organization
Item 2:
Post Types & Taxonomies
Item 3:
Assets & Task Runners
Item 4:
Excellent CMS Experience
Item 5:
The Loop & OOP
In conclusion, friends:
Plan to pause and learn
Thank You!
Feel free to chat with me! You can find me in...
The hallway afterwards :)
Resources
Slides availble at slides.com/jasontheadams/wcsd2018
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Using your current project to make the next one better and faster
By Jason Adams
Using your current project to make the next one better and faster
Slides for the talk given at WordCamp San Diego 2018
