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Talks and workshops | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. Monkeys, Communication and Relationships (1 hour). The talk looks at Robin Dunbar's theories around social groupings, the development of language, gossip and the monkey-sphere, before looking about what that can teach us about sustaining relationships, and applying it to the direct challenges that we see on our projects. FF QA (30 minutes including build in discussion). This talk looks at how we gather and use Cr...
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Catastrophe and Engagement | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. Thursday, 2 October 2014. This is the second part of a series on Leading and Guiding Groups. The first covered Safety and Enjoyment. As an important part of the learning dynamic. Pressure effects performance. Consider the demands placed on the individuals in teams and understand how it effects their performance. Original Source unknown (I have a copy of a copy). Please contact me if you can attribute. It helped m...
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New book: Talking with Tech Leads (From Novices to Practitioners) | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. New book: Talking with Tech Leads (From Novices to Practitioners). Wednesday, 24 September 2014. Has just published a new book: Talking with Tech Leads. Pat spent a huge slice of time meeting and interviewing Tech Leads, finding out their secret sauce, and discovering their advice for others. He's collated and boiled down those opinions to talk about the journey Tech Leads take and their lessons learnt. It is not...
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Growing into the role of the Well-Rounded Technical Lead | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. Growing into the role of the Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Tuesday, 11 June 2013. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.". A mixture of exposure, experience and reflection feeds the growth of a Well-Rounded Technical Lead. A strong, progressively developing definition of the role can be used to widen your skills and strengths. Growing towards the Role - Spotlighting experiences. If you...
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Adjusting Your Interaction Style | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. Adjusting Your Interaction Style. Tuesday, 23 December 2014. In a dynamic environment a team needs to be continually learning. A team that isn’t learning well risks making ill-informed choices, waiting to fail. Take time to look at how and what your team is learning and help them focus on the right things. Adjust your style to support, amplify and adapt to the growth of your team. Learning in a team environment.
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How to be a Well Rounded Technical Lead - Introduction | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. How to be a Well Rounded Technical Lead - Introduction. Sunday, 6 October 2013. It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.". The Technical Lead's job is a broad one. A wide set of practices and skills can help you meet your goals. In this set of posts I dive in to those I've found to be really valuable. Is this model a specification for how a Tech Lead should be? I keep a s...
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Leading and Delegating | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. Wednesday, 15 October 2014. A team that relies on its leader rather than learning to run itself is a team that's likely to fail. Building self reliance in your teams means they can work independently. In order to do that sometimes you need to build will and sometimes build skill. The leader's choice: Facilitate or Direct. 8220;Facilitate where they can, lead where they can’t.”. The simple grid of the Skill Will M...
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Safely using production data to drive testing | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. Safely using production data to drive testing. Sunday, 21 April 2013. Testing in your development environments using data from your production systems gives you accurate feedback on the latest additions to your application, but how do you avoid breaking Data Security rules? A problem with incremental development and testing at scale. You want to use your production data to test your software but you can’t &...
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The new IT. Start with users. Adapt to learnings. Iterate. | Engineering and Careering
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A view of Technical Leadership. The Well-Rounded Technical Lead. Leading and Guiding Groups. The new IT. Start with users. Adapt to learnings. Iterate. Tuesday, 13 January 2015. Posted by Dan Abel. Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom ). This is the blog site for Dan Abel, of Abel Coaching and Consulting. I offer one-on-one tech lead coaching, tech lead development programmes, team forming and delivery coaching, as well as software delivery consultancy. Contact me directly using [email protected].