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Randall Koutnik
June 09, 2017
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Implementers, Solvers, Finders: Rethinking the developer career path
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Implementers, Solvers, and Finders Rethinking the developer career path @rkoutnik
#leaddev
What does Senior mean? @rkoutnik #leaddev
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What does Senior mean? → Expensive → Bored → Opinionated
→ From Minnesota @rkoutnik #leaddev
Years of experience @rkoutnik #leaddev
What should Senior mean? @rkoutnik #leaddev
We need new words @rkoutnik #leaddev
Quantifiable @rkoutnik #leaddev
Give engineers a way forward @rkoutnik #leaddev
Describe the work we do @rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
None
@rkoutnik #leaddev
Solution Implementer - - - Problem Solver - - -
Problem Finder
Solution Implementer → Given solutions → Produces code @rkoutnik #leaddev
Problem Solver → Given problems → Produces solutions @rkoutnik #leaddev
Problem Finder → Given context → Discovers & prioritizes new
problems @rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
Where we go wrong @rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
Software Architect @rkoutnik #leaddev
Not mentoring implementers @rkoutnik #leaddev
UI squeeze @rkoutnik #leaddev
Impostor syndrome @rkoutnik #leaddev
@rkoutnik #leaddev
THANK YOU @rkoutnik