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Leong Hean Hong
July 04, 2015
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Building A Software Team
How to build an awesome software team. What should you care about in managing developers.
Leong Hean Hong
July 04, 2015
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Building A Software Team Leong Hean Hong
[email protected]
About I manage a team of software developers, and enjoy
growing with them. Today I am sharing some of things I learn from managing a team of awesome developers.
Agenda • Hiring • Communication • Learning • Motivation •
Team Building
Hiring
What I Look Out For • Passion ◦ Side projects
◦ Attending events. E.g. (Un)conferences, workshop, meetups ◦ Contribution to opensource projects ◦ Blog, forum ◦ Freelance work
What I Look Out For • Self Improvement (learning) ◦
E.g. Learn something not taught in school ◦ E.g. Learn something not used in previous company • Attitude
Communication (Teamwork)
Tools • Task management -> Trello • Documentation -> MediaWiki/DokuWiki
◦ Developers don’t like documentation ◦ Documentations reduces communication overhead, reduces miscommunication • Communication -> Hangout, Whatsapp, email
Tools Usage • Task Management ◦ Clarity in definition of
tasks ◦ Communicate priorities ◦ Timely update ◦ Review & feedbacks • Documentation ◦ Do the minimal ◦ Write things that developers need to read
Tools Usage • Communication ◦ Words are not enough. A
picture paints a thousand words. ◦ Daily chat with remote team
Learning
Facilitate Learning Many employers said they encourage continuous learning. What
have they done so far? • Lead by example • Facilitate learning • Share what you learn
Learning • Weekly sharing session ◦ Talk about features/techniques/methods ◦
New tool/library/framework/language • Books • Hackathon, workshop/seminar, (un) conferences • Teaching/talks
Apply Learning • Use new/unfamiliar tool/library/framework/language in project • Side
projects • Teach/coach
Motivation
Motivations Some of the things I practice • Tell her
what she did right • Praise/complement ◦ Showcase her projects/features/code • Challenge her ◦ Use new, unfamiliar tool/library/framework/language ◦ Reduce boring work (e.g implement login, deployment)
Team Building
Teamwork Get developers to work together, understand one another better.
Have fun while doing it. Some developers are resistant to it, use “fun” to change them.
Teamwork Techie • Hackathon, (un)conference, seminar/workshop Non-techie • Sports •
Escape room • Movies • Food, ...
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