the road to technical team lead
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The Road To Technical Team Lead
Ben Andersen-Waine
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IMO - …
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What is a Technical Team Lead?
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A leader, responsible for a development team, who spends at least 30% of their time writing code with the team.
Talking With Tech Leads - Patrick Kua
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Also Known As: Tech Lead Team Lead Dev Lead Chief Ninja Wizard (gah…)
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Hypothesis
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The Audience
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What do I enjoy? • Coding • Solution Design • Testing • Mentoring • Speaking At Conferences • Documentation (no, really)
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What do I not enjoy? • Admin • Meetings • Excel
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Line Management
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• Admin: • 1/1 • Yearly Appraisals • Holidays / Sickness • Hiring
• Reporting Up
Responsibilities Of A Line Manager
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Traditional Org Chart
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Traditional Org Chart
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“Sounds Like You Just Want To Be A Dev”
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What Do I Want? • To take a leading role in technical decision making • Become a technical specialist • To contribute to the development of co-workers
• Not to get bogged down in management
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The Rest Of This Talk:
• Activities of a Tech Lead • The Skills You Need • How To Get There
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Head Of Software Development
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A Day In The Life
Activity % Day (7.5hrs)
Week(37.5hrs)
Coding 40% 3 15
Design 30% 2.25 11.25
Integration 15% 1.125 5.6
Misc 15% 1.125 5.6
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Activities
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Coding
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Interruptions
Jason Fried: Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs
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Coding - Interruptions
Pair Programminghttp://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Pair_programming_1.jpg
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Coding - Interruptions
Pair Programminghttp://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html Visual Do Not DisturbThe Personal To Do List
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Coding - Interruptions
Pair Programminghttp://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html Visual Do Not DisturbThe Personal To Do List
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Coding - Learning
Mentoringhttps://blog.engineyard.com/2013/php-mentoring-software-apprenticeship
Code Reviews
Collective ‘Mobbing’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pvslS4gEI Establish The Culture
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http://mobprogramming.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/MobPhoto_2012_11_14.jpg
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Coding - Learning
Mentoringhttps://blog.engineyard.com/2013/php-mentoring-software-apprenticeship
Code Reviews
Collective ‘Mobbing’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pvslS4gEI Establish The Culture
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Design
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Design
Leading White boarding Sessions
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Design
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Design
Leading White boarding Sessions Creating Expressive Documentation
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A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words
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Design
Leading White boarding Sessions Creating Expressive Documentation Establish The Culture
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Integration
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Integration
Broad understanding of product architecture High level view of all work streams Deep Knowledge of well know problem areas
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Misc
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Skills
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People1 - 1 Active Listening Giving Feedback https://www.infoq.com/presentations/feedback-models-techniques 1 - mSpeaking Publicly
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Written Communication
Harrie Verveer - Software Architecture In An Agile Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK4l8_fzFmk Narrative Documentation UML / Sequence Diagrams Swagger / API Blueprint Network Diagrams
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How Do I Get There?
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Get The Skills / Demonstrate Competence
“Act Up”Find A Mentor
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What Kind of Organisation Am I In?
Traditional vs Flat Structure
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Flat Structure
Value autonomy over hierarchy
Venerate contribution to the product over job title
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Flat Structure - Spotify
https://ucvox.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/113617905-scaling-agile-spotify-11.pdf
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“Freedom And Responsibility”
http://igormroz.com/documents/netflix_culture.pdf
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“Why does your desk have wheels? Think of those wheels as a symbolic reminder that you should always be considering where you could move
yourself to be more valuable.”
http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
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Traditional Hierarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management
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Traditional Hierarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management
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Having The Conversation
Know What You Want Express It Well
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Final Thoughts
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Developers
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Decision Makers
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Questions