Conference Presentation, Tutorial, Keynote
Don Jones: 13 Years in a Shell: Lessons, Practices, and Achievements in PowerShell
- Community meetup series are expected to continue monthly, with an additional PowerShell meetup planned and a new PowerShell Summit scheduled in Germany for next week.
- Upcoming event plans include speaking at CodeCamps in New York during September and October, attending a summit in Tennessee later in the year, and the DevOps Automation Summit scheduled for fall 2020 in Nashville.
- A new open-source Windows terminal application supporting Unicode and transparency is anticipated to become the first-class console for PowerShell.
- Visual Studio Code is predicted to become the primary tool for PowerShell development as the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) faces zero further development.
- PowerShell classes are forecasted to be restricted to Windows PowerShell, receive no further support improvements, and are described as currently sketchy rather than a go-forward direction.
- A legacy "filter" construct is expected to remain in the Windows PowerShell codebase indefinitely due to an unintended rollback, despite no longer being intended for use.
- The "PowerShell Month of Lunches" series is transitioning to new authors, marking the speaker's last IT book on the topic.
- Conference leadership is expected to shift to a new team led by Missy, tasked with maintaining the PowerShell Summit and launching a new Nashville conference.
- Strategic business plans include moving into management and strategy, and an existing investment in "Sierge" magazine is planned to be exited.
- Companies are advised to experiment with DevOps on a per-product basis before expanding.
- Market forecasts suggest that companies failing to adopt modern technology and agile practices will lose market share or cease to exist.
- Time to market for new products is predicted to shift from years to days.
- Future market value is expected to favor generalists within increasingly tech-focused companies.
- Individuals who do not continuously learn are predicted to face layoffs, company failures, or lost opportunities.
- Investment and learning strategies should acknowledge failure as a necessary part of the process.