10 tips to become an awesome technical lead
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The document provides ten essential tips for becoming an effective technical lead, emphasizing the importance of advocating for change, learning from both failures and successes, and remaining technically engaged. It highlights the roles of mentoring, embracing diversity, and effective communication with stakeholders, as well as the challenges of estimating project timelines. The overall message promotes proactive leadership and collaboration within technical teams.
10 tips to become an awesome technical lead
- 1. JWORKSPowered By Ordina Everything you want(ed) to know on your first day as a Technical Lead and that you can use every day from this point onwards. 10 tips to become an awesome Technical Lead Bart Blommaerts
- 2. ORDINAJWORKS Bart Blommaerts Application Architect Ordina Belgium @DaggieBe JWorks
- 5. Technical Leadership What? Risks & RequirementsTechnical Guidance
- 6. Technical Leadership What? CoachingRisks & RequirementsTechnical Guidance
- 7. Technical Leadership What? CommunicationCoachingRisks & RequirementsTechnical Guidance
- 8. Technical Leadership Do we really need one?
- 10. Technical Leadership Do we really need one? Everything is awesome !
- 11. Technical Leadership Do we really need one? Really well-functioning teams where people share responsibilities
- 12. 2 sides to a story Technical responsibilities vs. Leadership activities Technical Leadership 50 %
- 14. MIZABusiness Company 1. Advocate for Change
- 16. Experience the same pain as everybody else on the team
- 17. JWORKSPowered By Ordina Everything you want(ed) to know on your first day as a Technical Lead and that you can use every day from this point onwards. tips to become an awesome Technical Lead Bart Blommaerts 11
- 18. MIZABusiness Company 2. Work through Failure and Success
- 19. Things will fail Prepare for failure Don’t finger-point Take responsibility Learn from failure
- 20. www.websitename.com 20 Celebrate success Sprint celebrations Feature complete Congratulate the team Congratulate individuals
- 21. MIZABusiness Company 3. Stay Technical
- 22. Stay Technical Write code Review code Technical vision Evolution of code
- 23. MIZABusiness Company 4. Always Available
- 24. Technical Design Business Project Management Code Time Management 35% 25% 15% 25%
- 25. Be realistic
- 26. MIZABusiness Company 5. Be a mentor for your team
- 27. Mentor Mediator
- 28. Mentor Mediator
- 29. Mentor Match goals Optimise for the group Effective delegation Mediator
- 30. Mentor Match goals Optimise for the group Effective delegation Mediator
- 31. Mentor Match goals Optimise for the group Effective delegation Mediator
- 32. Know when to give input Know when to make decisions Know when to step back
- 33. MIZABusiness Company 6. Surround yourself with other Tech Leads
- 34. Personal Level
- 36. You are not alone
- 38. MIZABusiness Company 7. Interviewing potential new team members
- 39. www.websitename.com 39 Know your goal Prepare Usefulness of resumes Don’t focus on tooling Mindset of a Developer Eagerness to learn
- 40. Do not use stackoverflow to find questions
- 41. 1. Comfort 2. Offer options 3. Build on responses 4. Show interest 5. Bonus question
- 42. MIZABusiness Company 8. Embrace Cultural differences
- 43. Embrace Cultural Differences Diversity is invaluable Opinions matter Shared end goal Surround yourself
- 44. Time Communication Prepare work Everybody is part of the team Offshore?
- 45. MIZABusiness Company 9. Estimating is hard
- 46. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. Douglas Hofstadter
- 47. Quickly repurpose top innovation before global communities. Planning poker Define a sequence Set a baseline Allow reasoning Uncertainty is normal
- 48. (O + 4BG + P) ÷ 6 Unknown unknowns Add 20% for - test - debug - polish - documentation - wtf moments Solutioning
- 49. Any estimate is better than no estimate Don’t forget the bigger picture Share estimates Review estimates
- 50. MIZABusiness Company 10. Interfacing with the outside world
- 52. Go-to-Guy / Go-to-Girl for management, the customer and other stakeholders
- 53. No
- 54. MIZABusiness Company 11. Facilitate (agile) team work
- 55. Facilitate agile Backlog Prioritised backlog Sprint Planning Burn down charts Retrospectives …
- 56. Facilitate an awesome team