MTECH Connect 2025 View Other Sessions

Moracle is a Maizey project designed to serve as an "oracular muse" (i.e., in-house expert) on ICPSR's (i.e., Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) vast source code repositories for its engineers. 

Moracle's purpose is to facilitate acquisition of knowledge about the group;s applications, and reduce the frequency and cost of context switching for the most senior engineers, whose deep institutional knowledge has resulted in being regularly pulled away from their own work to help others.

This presentation will cover the following:

• Design, development, and deployment of Moracle
• Construction of an application designed to expose the code to Maizey in a format it can consume
• Economics of the project for the department

“Hopes without a method to achieve them will remain mere hopes.” ~W. Edwards Deming

This session will explain how to manage one's career, learning tools based on real world stories of continuous learning and progressing towards goals. 

Attendees will learn and practice valuable and actionable skills that can help advance their career no matter what phase it is in, and not just leaving them hoping for the best. 

Software quality means different things to different people – and is thus hard to define – but we recognize the absence of quality when products fail to meet our needs. 

This presentation will explore the many components of software quality and then discuss how to integrate quality throughout the Agile environment. Continual conversations and multiple feedback loops keep the focus on quality. 

It will cover the characteristics of good Acceptance Criteria and the role of the Three Amigos, in addition to reviewing how the alphabet soup of BDD, TDD, ATDD, UAT, and other acronyms contribute to quality. 

Participants will come away with practical ideas that can be readily applied in their own environments to improve software quality, and learn how to:

• Incorporate software quality concepts to prevent defects in Agile software developmentxz
• Recognize effective acceptance criteria and scenarios, in order to provide good feature descriptions that will assure product success
• Understand and apply the many feedback loops that occur throughout Agile development

You don’t need a title to make a difference. In this interactive session, attendees will discover how trust, relationships, and small actions can create real change, regardless of their role. 

Attendees will learn to:

• Recognize the difference between influence and authority
• Focus their energy using the Circle of Influence
• Design small, achievable actions that build momentum
• Navigate common barriers to change
• Find where and how to make a difference using tools like the Circle of Influence and Small Wins Theory

Benefits include:

• Gaining confidence in your ability to shape positive change
• Learning how to lead at any level
• Creating a personalized action plan