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The Geek’s Guide to Leading Teams

Presentation given at GotoAarhus 2012 on the Humans At Work track

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The Geek’s Guide to Leading Teams

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  1. The Geek’s Guide to Leading Teams @patkua ThoughtWorks

  2. The Geek’s Guide to Leading Teams @patkua @patkua ThoughtWorks

  3. Who am I?

  4. Who am I?

  5. Programmer Me! Who am I? Tech Lead Agile Coach

  6. Author http://tiny.cc/retrobook Programmer Me! Who am I? Tech Lead Agile Coach

  7. Why do we need a Tech Lead?

  8. ?

  9. Think this doesn’t happen in the real world?

  10. @julianboot

  11. @julianboot @thejayfields: I had ten guys on my last project, all of them had opinions and all of them were expressed in the code base #speakerconf Source: http://twitter.com/julianboot/status/232830267822309376

  12. A simple test for an effective Tech Lead...

  13. Does the codebase look like it was written by a single person? Yes No

  14. What does a good Tech Lead focus on?

  15. P P P

  16. Programming P P

  17. Programming People P

  18. Programming People Process

  19. Programming

  20. Do effective Technical Leaders need to code? Programming

  21. Do effective Technical Leaders need to code? Definitely! Programming

  22. Do effective Technical Leaders need to code? Definitely! Programming

  23. Do effective Technical Leaders need to code? Definitely! At least 30% of the time with the team Programming

  24. Programming http://bit.ly/15Rm4z

  25. “...respect is the currency of the realm” Programming http://bit.ly/15Rm4z

  26. ““The amount of respect an IT pro pays someone is a measure of how tolerable that person is when it comes to getting things done...”” Programming http://bit.ly/15Rm4z

  27. Consistency over Cleverness Programming

  28. Programming

  29. Tabs OR Spaces Brackets OR not Curly brace end of line OR next line 2 Spaces OR 4 Spaces CamelCase OR Underscore Programming

  30. Tabs OR Spaces Brackets OR not Curly brace end of line OR next line 2 Spaces OR 4 Spaces CamelCase OR Underscore Programming

  31. Tabs OR Spaces Brackets OR not There are more important topics to spend time on... Curly brace end of line OR next line 2 Spaces OR 4 Spaces CamelCase OR Underscore Programming

  32. Team Culture Programming

  33. Team Culture Programming

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