Leading a Front-end Development Team

Whether you’re the head of a flock or its whipping tail - chances you were a part of a team at some point in your career. Which qualities have made your experience any better or worse? What to expect from the leader? How to make it tick and pave the road to communal and personal prosperity in a world of constant change? What’s love got to do, got to do with it?

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1. YGLF 2015 Leading a Front End Development Team
3. Teams = ? Leadership = ?
4. Late night commit
5. A-ha moment
6. Love vs. Fear
8. • That the code under your supervision won’t be perfect? What are you afraid of?
9. • That the code under your supervision won’t be perfect? • What will other people think? What are you afraid of?
10. • That the code under your supervision won’t be perfect? • What will other people think? • To let someone else do it his way? What are you afraid of?
11. • That the code under your supervision won’t be perfect? • What will other people think? • To let someone else do it his way? • To discover that his way was better? What are you afraid of?
12. • That the code under your supervision won’t be perfect? • What will other people think? • To let someone else do it his way? • To discover that his way was better? • To let go of control? What are you afraid of?
13. • That the code under your supervision won’t be perfect? • What will other people think? • To let someone else do it his way? • To discover that his way was better? • To let go of control? • To become irrelevant? What are you afraid of?
14. Late night commit
15. Late night commit Confidence
16. Confidence “The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust”
17. Confidence You can’t move forward without making positive assumptions.
18. Late night commit Confidence
19. Late night commit Confidence Let go
20. Let go You can only control yourself
21. Late night commit Confidence Let go
22. Late night commit Confidence Let go Let grow
23. Let grow You can’t “grow” something, only let it.
25. Crisis
26. Love vs. Fear
28. What are you afraid of? • That you’ll have to cancel your plans and work on this all night
29. What are you afraid of? • That you’ll have to cancel your plans and work on this all night • That you’ll have to force someone else into this
30. What are you afraid of? • That you’ll have to cancel your plans and work on this all night • That you’ll have to force someone else into this • That the project won’t be delivered on time
31. What are you afraid of? • That you’ll have to cancel your plans and work on this all night • That you’ll have to force someone else into this • That the project won’t be delivered on time • That you’ll make a bad choice
32. What are you afraid of? • That you’ll have to cancel your plans and work on this all night • That you’ll have to force someone else into this • That the project won’t be delivered on time • That you’ll make a bad choice • That everything will collapse on your head
33. Crisis
34. Crisis Boundaries
35. Boundaries “To confine someone or something within certain limits of space, scope, quantity, or time.”
36. Boundaries You can’t become anything where you’re allowed to do everything.
37. Crisis Boundaries
38. Crisis Boundaries Respect
39. Respect You can’t be important if you don’t treat others as such.
40. Crisis Boundaries Respect
41. Crisis Boundaries Respect Empathy
42. Empathy To me it’s to recognize humanity in others.
43. Crisis Boundaries Respect Empathy
44. Crisis Boundaries Respect Empathy Support
45. Support I believe that you can’t do it on your own.
46. Values Team 1. Confidence 2. Boundaries 3. Respect 4. Empathy 5. Support Leadership 1. Let go 2. Let grow
47. Team
48. It starts right here
49. (Not all families are the same, it’s OK, I understand)
50. A development team is actually a big, weird, hopefully happy family.
51. Leadership
52. WAT (Google “leadership”)
53. And this
54. And this
55. This is Leadership
56. When it goes wrong
57. Love (Icon)
58. Love to wake up • Passion • Motivation • Purpose • Relationships
59. Love to fall asleep • Acceptance • Satisfaction • Happiness
60. Love to start a fire Love for The Web, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, your code buddies, your desk, users, coffee machine, midnight pizzas, clean code, making a commit, …
61. Love for the process, for small steps towards a bigger goal, for the people, for YOURSELF. Nothing you can do but you can learn to be you in time, it’s easy. Love to put out a fire
62. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
63. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE Thank You