What Can We Really Learn from Martial Arts?

Quickie

Methodology & DevOps

Room 2 - Schibsted

Tuesday at 13:00 - 13:15

As software geeks we live in a culture which displays a certain affinity towards terminology of martial arts. Particularly Japanese Martial Arts seem to offer a certain fascination. We execute Katas, attend Dojos, and perform Randoris.

Are these terms even accurate? Can we maybe learn more from the world of martial arts?

In this talk I will present the experiences I have made during two decades of learning and teaching different martial arts and explore how they might apply to learning, teaching and the practice of software development.

Fabian Förster
I am a Software engineer who cares about the quality of the products which I help building. My definition of quality spans from writing clean code and meaningful tests to maintainability and how the software behaves in its natural habitat, i.e. not in my IDE but in production. When not building backend components of distributed systems or APIs, I care about my family, martial arts and medieval archery. I am enthusiastic about polyglot programming, DevOps and Science Fiction. I work for Deutsche Post E-Post Development as a software engineer building public facing APIs.

Fabian Förster

I am a Software engineer who cares about the quality of the products which I help building. My definition of quality spans from writing clean code and meaningful tests to maintainability and how the software behaves in its natural habitat, i.e. not in my IDE but in production. When not building backend components of distributed systems or APIs, I care about my family, martial arts and medieval archery. I am enthusiastic about polyglot programming, DevOps and Science Fiction. I work for Deutsche Post E-Post Development as a software engineer building public facing APIs.