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