David Demaree One morning, you wake up and find yourself (sort of ) in charge Leadership patterns for the maturing software developer WindyCityRails ✶ 13 September 2013 Get the slides at go.dem.mx/wcr2013/slides Friday, September 13, 13
David Demaree Product manager for Adobe Typekit Rails developer since like forever Frequent speaker, pending author Not afraid to put his face on a 40’ screen @ddemaree Photo: Ryan Carver typekit.com Friday, September 13, 13
18 Dead 40 30 COHORT SOURCE AGE Entire U.S. workforce U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 42 All programmers U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 38 StackOverflow users Self-reported 30 Google employees Google / New York Times 29 Friday, September 13, 13
18 Dead 40 30 COHORT SOURCE AGE Entire U.S. workforce U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 42 All programmers U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 38 StackOverflow users Self-reported 30 Google employees Google / New York Times 29 Friday, September 13, 13
18 Dead 40 30 COHORT SOURCE AGE Entire U.S. workforce U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 42 All programmers U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 38 StackOverflow users Self-reported 30 Google employees Google / New York Times 29 Friday, September 13, 13
18 Dead 40 30 COHORT SOURCE AGE Entire U.S. workforce U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 42 All programmers U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 38 StackOverflow users Self-reported 30 Google employees Google / New York Times 29 Friday, September 13, 13
18 Dead 40 30 COHORT SOURCE AGE Entire U.S. workforce U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 42 All programmers U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 38 StackOverflow users Self-reported 30 Google employees Google / New York Times 29 Friday, September 13, 13
18 Dead 40 30 COHORT SOURCE AGE Entire U.S. workforce U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 42 All programmers U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 38 StackOverflow users Self-reported 30 Google employees Google / New York Times 29 Friday, September 13, 13
in charge sort of Power & control Saying things worth following Being a force multiplier Helping good collaboration happen Getting things done you can’t get done alone Friday, September 13, 13
HELPING OTHERS WRITE CODE Improve your support stack Testing tools & practices Development environment & tools Developer interfaces to your app Deployment process Docs & style guide Friday, September 13, 13
HELPING OTHERS WRITE CODE Use pull requests Join the right conversations Uphold standards (constructively) Nitpick (appropriately) Above all, be helpful Give great code review Friday, September 13, 13
HELPING OTHERS WRITE CODE Beware process overhead Collective process ownership Lots of guidelines, few rules Garbage collection, not enforcement Have tools follow process Meetings are tools Friday, September 13, 13
HELPING OTHERS WRITE CODE Remember it’s not about you Separate taste from judgment Watch out for biases “Feeling” productive can be bulls#!t When in doubt, talk about it Friday, September 13, 13
Something you love Something you are good at Something the world needs Thanks to Jeff Veen for the original version of this and the next few slides Friday, September 13, 13
Something you love Something you are good at Something the world needs Thanks to Jeff Veen for the original version of this and the next few slides Friday, September 13, 13
ddemaree
yukihiromori
nagix
kazukihayase
yellowshippo
mixi_engineers
isaoshimizu
sheep_san_white
junjikoide
yusuke
prathamesh
senkin13
th0x0472
lauravandoore
iamctodd
vanstee
chrisshort
frogandcode
shpigford
productmarketing
roundedbygravity
mojombo
orderedlist
thekraken
moore