Talks

In a global business environment, differences in communication styles between Eastern (including Russian-speaking) and Western professionals can be a source of misunderstanding. Recognizing and accepting cultural differences, as well as developing intercultural communication skills, is an important step to improve the effectiveness of teamwork.

You will hear real stories of management failures — without names, but with vivid details. We will discuss how communication mistakes affect projects and teams, and offer practical ideas to help you avoid such situations in your work.

We will discuss what load testing is and why it is needed; how load testing helps to identify performance weaknesses in your product and prevent failures under high load; what is the role of the analyst in load testing; how analysts can contribute to shaping load testing scenarios to ensure system stability and efficiency; how NFTs (non-functional requirements) can affect the load on systems and how this is factored into the testing process.

Knowing how to fail is a special art when launching products. According to various data, between 10 and 15% of product hypotheses become successful. What to do with the rest, how to learn from mistakes and give a second life to failed ideas - I will tell you in the talk.

A talk on effectively implementing processes from scratch in a company, emphasizing that flexibility and adaptability are often more important than rigid adherence to a plan and methodologies that don't always lead to success.

Back in 2007, I left the safe place of a man on the payroll and “created” a company. More precisely, I organized an LLC. I will tell you about the key mistakes I made as: a consultant; a company founder; together with my clients in the approach to transforming and developing companies.

I will share the story of how we launched an API product on the international market and what mistakes we made thinking we were experts. You will learn about the real problems we faced and how they can be avoided.

We'll try to look at falls from the other side and talk about reverse engineering: when you stop thinking about how not to fall and start treating the system as something alive — and therefore non-ideal — that is sure to fall from time to time.

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In today's world, it is important not only to solve business problems, but also to find personal meaning in professional activities. This talk will help you to understand how your individual values and goals can harmonize with business processes and interaction with colleagues.

You develop requirements, but they change all the time. You write design solutions, but the developers do it their way. They also offer to refine your solution for implementation. Analyst, what's the point of your job? Let's reflect on this question.

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Wiegers' requirements ontology, while not based on any standards, remains a popular way to think about requirements among IT analysts. I've been using Wiegers' methodologies for over 20 years, and during that time the inconsistencies and problems in his model became apparent. Using language methods and systems engineering approaches, I've been able to figure out how I can make Wiegers' model more accurate, balanced, and useful for my work. I would like to offer you this updated ontology and explain how to apply it.

In a world where artificial intelligence is becoming an employer, the main challenge for human beings will be not just to adapt to new economic conditions, but also to preserve their humanity, their capacity for meaningful existence and ethical responsibility for their actions. In the talk we will try to find out whether we can do something about the fact that we have atomized our work and, indirectly through technology, are becoming increasingly distant from the result of our labor.