Bots, Burnout and Blame: Using technology to build better organisations
Matthew Bellringer
Free and Open to All. Refreshments at 1830, Talk at 1900.
Livestream Link :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPT_Shb6R8
Synopsis ::
In our working lives we have tools that would seem magical to employees a hundred years ago. The small computers we keep in our pockets connect us immediately to most of the combined knowledge of humanity. Our working conditions have improved immeasurably. We sit in air conditioned offices, no longer toiling in coal mines and factories. Despite this, levels of anxiety and depression amongst employees is at an all-time high. The unhealthy psychological environment which gives rise to this suffering leads to poor decision-making and organisational failure.
This talk identifies the key personal and organisational factors which give rise to workplace stress, and what can be done about them. It highlights research which suggests that the most effective organisations are not the most stressful, and that high performance is not the result of over-work. It will help you both as an employee and a manager to build an environment which allows for greater wellbeing and higher performance.
Making our own field better is only just the start. Technology can improve the working lives of employees well beyond the IT department. We now have a unique opportunity as IT professionals to build systems which more effectively meet human needs than those before, and to do so at scale.
Our lives and outlook, and those of our children, are fast being shaped by digital. These changes are unplanned, largely unregulated and already happening. This, warns Adam Thilthorpe, leaves us reliant on the ethical fortitude of developers. He says we urgently need a clear ethical framework for digital innovation.
Adam Thilthorpe, BCS Director for Professionalism in IT, will be visiting the branch to give the above talk.
Free and Open to All. Refreshments at 1830, Talk at 1900.
Kenny Coyle will be speaking on his experiences with using Open Source Video Systems in his job of capturing many years of presentations for the KDE Akademy conference.
Livestream and VOD link :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL0SUN-uFzM
Free and Open to All. Refreshments at 1830, Talk at 1900.
Bots, Burnout and Blame: Using technology to build better organisations
Matthew Bellringer
Free and Open to All. Refreshments at 1830, Talk at 1900.
Synopsis ::
In our working lives we have tools that would seem magical to employees a hundred years ago. The small computers we keep in our pockets connect us immediately to most of the combined knowledge of humanity. Our working conditions have improved immeasurably. We sit in air conditioned offices, no longer toiling in coal mines and factories. Despite this, levels of anxiety and depression amongst employees is at an all-time high. The unhealthy psychological environment which gives rise to this suffering leads to poor decision-making and organisational failure.
This talk identifies the key personal and organisational factors which give rise to workplace stress, and what can be done about them. It highlights research which suggests that the most effective organisations are not the most stressful, and that high performance is not the result of over-work. It will help you both as an employee and a manager to build an environment which allows for greater wellbeing and higher performance.
Making our own field better is only just the start. Technology can improve the working lives of employees well beyond the IT department. We now have a unique opportunity as IT professionals to build systems which more effectively meet human needs than those before, and to do so at scale.
Join us for a talk from the BCS Information Security Specialist Group on GDPR.
Chair Ian Fish will be presenting.
Please grab a FREE ticket from the ticket link.
Livestream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u1RQHM-lP0
Ian's Bio:
Ian Fish FBCS CITP has a long history of volunteering within BCS and has been on the ISSG committee for more than 25 years and is the current chairman. He is also the membership secretary of the ICT Ethics SG. In the past he has been the chair of the Information Privacy Expert Panel and a member of the Security Community of Expertise. Both of these bodies have now been subsumed into the Security and Privacy Executive. Ian was an inaugural member of the Best Practice Committee, founded the BCS IoT Working Group in 2012 and has represented BCS in a number of UN Internet Governance Forums and European Dialogues on Internet Governance."
Find out more about the group: http://www.bcs.org/category/19042
Group's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1182227/profile
Find BCS Glasgow on:
Twitter @BCSGlasgow
Facebook /groups/bcsglasgow
Join us for a talk from the BCS Information Security Specialist Group on GDPR.
Chair Ian Fish will be presenting.
Please grab a FREE ticket from the ticket link.
Ian's Bio:
Ian Fish FBCS CITP has a long history of volunteering within BCS and has been on the ISSG committee for more than 25 years and is the current chairman. He is also the membership secretary of the ICT Ethics SG. In the past he has been the chair of the Information Privacy Expert Panel and a member of the Security Community of Expertise. Both of these bodies have now been subsumed into the Security and Privacy Executive. Ian was an inaugural member of the Best Practice Committee, founded the BCS IoT Working Group in 2012 and has represented BCS in a number of UN Internet Governance Forums and European Dialogues on Internet Governance."
Find out more about the group: http://www.bcs.org/category/19042
Group's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1182227/profile
Find BCS Glasgow on:
Twitter @BCSGlasgow
Facebook /groups/bcsglasgow
Brief presentation synopsis:
A story - told from the perspective of a team - as they take a journey of discovery. Refusing to be methodology zealots, they had to pick their own path and develop a set of practices that met their needs.
Learning from their own experiences - their journey involved some accidents, some false paths and some good luck. In the end they borrowed from some Agile principles, copied from some Lean principles and made the rest up.
The team are still on their journey, but the hope is that hearing this story will inspire thoughts and ideas for others who may be on a similar journey...
Speaker profile:
Graeme has spent the past 15 years or so working as an Engineer. His early career included working on the design of systems used in wellbore surveys in the oil and gas industry, as well as the development of debug tools for the smart card industry.
For the past 11 years, Graeme has worked as a software engineer working on the development of an enterprise-grade CRM product. For 6 of those years, he has also worked as a team lead of one of the development teams.
While he used to think building software was a challenge, he’s come to appreciate that perhaps the greater challenge lies in building successful teams that build software. He takes great satisfaction from helping turn a group of smart, talented, individuals into an effective team who collaborate, communicate and get stuff done.
Brief presentation synopsis:
A story - told from the perspective of a team - as they take a journey of discovery. Refusing to be methodology zealots, they had to pick their own path and develop a set of practices that met their needs.
Learning from their own experiences - their journey involved some accidents, some false paths and some good luck. In the end they borrowed from some Agile principles, copied from some Lean principles and made the rest up.
The team are still on their journey, but the hope is that hearing this story will inspire thoughts and ideas for others who may be on a similar journey...
Speaker profile:
Graeme has spent the past 15 years or so working as an Engineer. His early career included working on the design of systems used in wellbore surveys in the oil and gas industry, as well as the development of debug tools for the smart card industry.
For the past 11 years, Graeme has worked as a software engineer working on the development of an enterprise-grade CRM product. For 6 of those years, he has also worked as a team lead of one of the development teams.
While he used to think building software was a challenge, he’s come to appreciate that perhaps the greater challenge lies in building successful teams that build software. He takes great satisfaction from helping turn a group of smart, talented, individuals into an effective team who collaborate, communicate and get stuff done.
November Meeting: Project Management: How to Guarantee Failure
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Speaker: Andrew Robertson, MBCS, CITP
There are a plethora of books, education programs, and consultancies that offer the Keys to Project Management success. As with sport, there is much to learn by studying failure to win. This light hearted look at the actions that guarantee project failure seeks to offer guidance through the minefield that is project management.
Brief presentation synopsis: LoRa is an open low-power radio technology which is currently seeing fast adoption around the world.
This talk introduces the low-powered radio technology and a look into the LoRAWAN protocol and its applications in the real world (both present and future) and also gives insight into some of the LoRa network deployments which I have taken part in both in Glasgow and around the UK.
Speaker profile: As a Software Architect at Stream Technologies, Peter works with the rest of the team at Stream on the design, planning and implementation of many different projects, including Streams multi-technology connectivity platform IoT-X and a LoRaWAN network server.
Description changed:The branch meetings of BCS Glasgow.