Leading & growing software teams
- Room:
- Wicklow Hall 1
- Start (Dublin time):
- Start (your time):
- Duration:
- 45 minutes
Abstract
Software development is a team game.
As you progress through your career, you might end up in a leadership role, taking care of your own team, or even of multiple teams.
As a team lead, itâs up to you to establish a good working rhythm, set the right expectations, communicate up and down the chain of command and effectively help your team grow in both technical and non-technical terms.
As a team lead, you want to enable your team to reach its full potential.
The main goal of this talk is to provide pragmatic real-life examples, about how to achieve those things.
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Description
Software development is a team game.
As you progress through your career, you might end up in a leadership role, taking care of your own team, or even of multiple teams.
As a team lead, itâs up to you to establish a good working rhythm, set the right expectations, communicate up and down the chain of command and effectively help your team grow in both technical and non-technical terms.
As a team lead, you want to enable your team to reach its full potential.
The main goal of this talk is to provide pragmatic real-life examples, about how to achieve those things.
We are going to cover the following topics:
- Whatâs the role of a team lead?
- Managing expectations & responsibilities.
- Establishing a good work rhythm.
- Establishing a good form of communication.
- What does team growth look like?
This talk is the natural sequel of the following talks from previous EuroPythons:
- EuroPython 2017 - Practical Debugging - Tips, Tricks and Ways to think - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ys4gCUtTh8
- EuroPython 2018 - Django structure for scale and longevity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG3ZdxBb1oo
- EuroPython 2019 - Software patterns for productive teams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEy68VRmOeQ