PowerShell+ 2019 - Dungeons & Dragons & Development: How Playing Games Makes... by Michael Lombardi

Dungeons & Dragons & Development: How Playing Games Makes You a Better IT Pro by Michael Lombardi Dungeons and Dragons, as well as numerous other tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) has a lot to teach us about engineering. I'll cover the very basics of what tabletop roleplaying is, then expand on how it helps you practice critical engineering (both software and operations!) skills. I'll cover each of the skills below with an story from real-life play and explain how these lessons translate back into our work as IT Pros using examples from incident response, customer support, and feature implementation. ### Interpersonal - Empathy - Collaboration - Communication ### Personal - Lateral Thinking - Problem Solving - Investigation ### Leadership - Improvisation - Content Generation - Conflict Resolution This talk is light on technical demos and heavy on culture and workflow, helping folks move towards one of the pillars of DevOps in a meaningful way. PowerShell Summit videos are recorded on a "best effort" basis. We use a room mic to capture as much room audio as possible, with an emphasis on capturing the speaker. Our recordings are made in a way that minimizes overhead for our speakers and interruptions to our live audience. These recordings are meant to preserve the presentations' information for posterity, and are not intended to be a substitute for attending the Summit in person. These recordings are not intended as professional video training products. We hope you find these videos useful - the equipment used to record these was purchased using generous donations from members of the PowerShell community.