Level Up Your Team (ConFoo 2016)

As a tech lead, team lead or other senior-level member of a development team, you may at any time run into the problem where you want your team members to improve themselves, but you have a hard time actually pushing your team members in the right direction. This talk will help you with practical tips and tricks and examples on how to get developers to push themselves to their limits and level up.

Transcript

1. Level Up Your Team
2. Who is this guy?
3. Who are you?
4. The problem
5. Try to find good developers
6. Try to find good developers Ensure they stay good
7. What happens if we invest in our developers and they leave? — Manager to team lead
8. What happens if we don't, and they stay? — Team lead
9. Learning
10. Continuous Learning
11. How do we learn?
12. Knowledge sessions
13. Usergroups
14. Conferences
15. Trainings
16. Commercial break
18. Back to the regular program
19. Small Controlled Experiments
20. Small Controlled Experiments http://verraes.net/2014/03/small-controlled-experiments/
21. Code kata
22. Pair programming
23. Code reviews
24. Books
25. Documentation
26. Documentation · RTFM
27. Documentation · RTFM · WTFM
28. Documentation · RTFM · WTFM · UTFM · DTFM
30. Mentoring
31. Mentoring https://app.phpmentoring.org/
32. Teambuilding
33. More?
34. Motivation
35. People need to want it
36. YOU need to show you want it
37. Personal Development Plan
38. Invest money
39. Invest time
40. Enable
41. People leave
42. The manager/team lead conversation
43. Do not be scared of people leaving
44. Be afraid they don't learn and stay
45. Level Up Your Team
46. @skoop http://leftontheweb.com/