Wed, 19 November 2025, 6:00 PM Canberra Time
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Fail Fast, Ship Faster: Learning to Orchestrate Instead of Implement
With Gordon Beeming
.NET User Group - Canberra
Event Description
Fail fast and often - that's DevOps wisdom, right? I've never failed more productively than in 2025.
This talk walks through a year of shipping real projects by learning to orchestrate instead of implement: natural conversations that become documentation, virtual specialist teams handling complex work, refactoring lessons learned the hard way, and git investigations that run while you make coffee.
You'll see the productivity experiments, the spectacular failures that taught me what NOT to do, and the security patterns that make it production-ready.
When & Where
We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 6:30pm to 9:00pm.
Agenda
6:00 PMNetworking and Pizza
6:30 PMLive Stream & Tech News
7:00 PMPresentation
Presenter
Gordon Beeming is a Solution Architect at SSW and a long-standing Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, an award he has held since 2014. With a deep-rooted passion for DevOps, he excels at guiding organizations through the cultural and technical shifts required for modern software development. Gordon's expertise is built on years of experience with the Microsoft stack, beginning with .NET 2.0 in 2008. He is a prominent authority on Azure DevOps, having used the platform since its earliest on-premises days as TFS. As a published author, he has co-authored multiple books on TFS and agile project management and has contributed extensively to community guidance as a former ALM Ranger.
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Learn moreWhat is the .NET User Group?
Every month, SSW hosts the Canberra .NET User Group, where developers come together to learn about the latest technologies from local and internationally renowned experts. Topics focus on .NET and other Microsoft technologies (Azure, DevOps, SharePoint, Power Platform, and more), full stack development (Angular, React, Blazor), and mobile apps with .NET MAUI (was Xamarin), as well as exciting opportunities to learn about the latest industry trends and even tips on presenting from world class speakers.
Organizer
Adam Cogan
Chief Architect at SSW
Adam is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom enterprise .NET and Azure solutions mostly using Angular and React. His solutions also involve Office365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Power BI.
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What do people say?
Jeff Atwood
Developers are already good at writing code. Writing reams of code just digs you deeper into an already deeply specialized skill. What I am proposing is that we spend less time coding and more time developing skills in other areas that complement our coding skills. Become a better writer. Become a better speaker. Improve your personal skills. Participate in the community. Try to spend some time talking to people instead of the compiler. That's how you distinguish yourself from your peers. And that's ultimately how you become a better software developer, too.
Troy Magennis
Informative and entertaining. Lots of little snippets of lessons we would have had to learn through experience
