Level Up Your Team (PHPNW16)

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 or to get involved in community or other projects, 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 from the work floor on how to get developers to push themselves to their limits and level up.

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1. Level Up Your Team
   

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2. Who is this guy?
   

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3. @skoop
   

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4. Who are you?
   

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5. The problem
   

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6. Try to find good developers
   

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7. Try to find good developers
   Ensure they stay good
   

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8. What happens if we invest in our
   developers and they leave?
   — Manager to team lead
   

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9. What happens if we don't, and
   they stay?
   — Team lead
   

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10. Learning
    

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11. Continuous Learning
    

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12. How do we learn?
    

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13. Knowledge sessions
    

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14. Usergroups
    

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15. Conferences
    

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16. Trainings
    

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17. Other events
    

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19. Small Controlled Experiments
    

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20. Small Controlled Experiments
    http://verraes.net/2014/03/small-controlled-experiments/
    

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21. Code kata
    

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22. Pair programming
    

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23. Code reviews
    

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24. Books
    

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25. Documentation
    

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26. Documentation
    · RTFM
    

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27. Documentation
    · RTFM
    · WTFM
    

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28. Documentation
    · RTFM
    · WTFM
    · UTFM
    · DTFM
    

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30. Mentoring
    

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31. Mentoring
    https://app.phpmentoring.org/
    

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32. Teambuilding
    

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33. More?
    

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34. Motivation
    

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35. People need to want it
    

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36. YOU need to show you want it
    

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37. Personal Development Plan
    

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38. Invest money
    

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39. Invest time
    

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40. Enable
    

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41. People leave
    

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42. The manager/team lead
    conversation
    

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43. Do not be scared of people leaving
    

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44. Be afraid they don't learn and
    stay
    

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45. Level Up Your Team
    

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46. @skoop
    http://leftontheweb.com/
    joind.in: https://legacy.joind.in/18850
    

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