NEPHP 2014 - How to Win Friends and Influence Developers

Learn how to get along well with your co-workers and work your way up the corporate ladder. Or better yet, burn it down. Politely of course.

In this session we will lay out several soft skills for developers

Working well with your co-workers.
How to look good in the eyes of management without giving up your opinion or dignity.
Basic pointers for leading other developers.
How to get involved and excel at open source projects.

Transcript

1. Win Friends and Influence Developers don’t be an asshole
2. Who is this guy? Ben Edmunds ! @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com
3. Who is this guy? Ben Edmunds ! Open Source Author PHP Town Hall Podcast CTO at Mindfulware
5. Communication
6. Communication IS KING
7. Co-workers Communication Bosses Clients
8. Co-Workers
10. Empathy Co-Workers
11. Work Hard Co-Workers
12. Clarify Repeat Repeat Co-Workers
13. Constructive Code Reviews Co-Workers
14. Lend a Hand Co-Workers
15. Golden Rule Co-Workers
16. Confront Issues $frustration++ Co-Workers
17. Allies Co-Workers
18. Bosses
20. Direct Boss Management etc… Bosses
21. What are you doing? Bosses
22. Roadblocks Bosses
23. Burn Out Bosses
24. Stop Burn Out Bosses
25. Bad Boss Bosses
26. Quit! Bosses
27. Clients
29. All of the Above Clients
30. Clarify / Repeat What You’re Doing Allies Clients
31. Excelling
33. Don’t? Excelling
34. Volunteer Take Responsibility ! Excelling
35. High Visibility Quality Demos Excelling
36. Learn Convey Ideas Convince Excelling
37. GET SHIT DONE Excelling
38. Open Source
40. Create the next Rails ??? Profit Open Source
41. Developer = Bad User Open Source
42. PRSTFU Open Source
43. Recruit Delegate Open Source
44. Get Started Docs Open Source
45. Issues Features Open Source
46. Appreciate Feedback Say NO Open Source
47. Open Source Guilt Have Fun! Open Source
48. Q/A TIME! Ben Edmunds @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com