Join the Dark Side - Why developers should choose management

‘Management’ is seen as a bit of a dirty word in the development community, so much so that we’ve had to give it other names so that people will do the job (Scrum master for example!) but it doesn’t have to mean PHB’s and David Brent. There’s a real need for more developers to step up into management roles and it doesn’t have to mean ceasing to write code.

In this talk I’ll describe the different types of management, why we need developers to do the job and why the job might appeal to you.

By the end of the talk I aim to convince you that management isn't the dark side after all!

Transcript

2. About … @cerishaw cerishaw.com
3. 3 month free trial with code DDDNORTH
4. 4 years ago
5. Accident
6. Management
7. Dark Side
8. Why?
9. A line manager, is a person who directly manages other employees… If someone refers to their "boss" they mean their line manager.
10. A project manager, is responsible for the successful planning, execution, monitoring and closure of a project
11. • to take charge or care of • to dominate or influence (a person) by tact, flattery, or artifice • to handle, direct, govern, or control in action or use • to wield (a weapon, tool, etc.) …to Manage
12. Dirty Word M**g*m**t
13. Clueless
14. Loss of Skill
15. Blame
16. Unrewarding
17. Control
18. Career Progression
19. Creative
21. Line Management
22. “The Boss”
23. Above the team Paperwork Buck stops here Technical
24. Team Lead Line manager
25. Get the best out of people
26. Bosses make bad line managers
27. So who does?
28. Understands Technical Feedback Mentor
29. Senior ! Engineer?
30. People skills
31. Opportunity
32. Mentoring
33. Yoda not Darth
34. Project Management
35. Blame Gant Charts Reports Demands
36. Getting the best out of the team
37. Outcomes
38. “Internals”
39. Product Owner Scrum Master
40. Environment for success
41. Technical Problem Solving Details Logical
42. People skills Step back
43. Scrum Master
44. Not the ! dark side
45. Can I Still Write Code?
46. Yes
47. Requirement
48. More Management = Less Code
49. Bottlenecks
50. Hobby
51. Why Should You?
52. Spread the load
53. Understand! Developers
54. Line! Management
55. Project! Management
56. Value
57. Resources?
58. Johanna Rothman! Ester Derby
59. Jurgen Appelo
60. Johanna Rothman
62. Other Johanna Rothman: http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/ Jurgen Appelo: http://www.noop.nl First Round review: http://firstround.com/review/category/ Management-and-Company-Building Daniel Pink: @DanielPink Lisa Crispin @lisacrispin
63. Sum Up
64. Bad Thing
65. Technical
66. Beneficial
67. Caring
68. Questions ? @cerishaw DDDNORTH