From Developer to Manager and Back Again

DISCLAIMER: This talk is better!

Brujo Benavides

My Career Path

What does it mean

to grow

in your company

or career?

A well-defined Career Path

LEADER

It probably won't happen

overnight

Still, you won't be ready

 

What to Learn?

  • Effective 1:1s
  • Managing Crisis
  • Mentoring
  • Giving & Receiving Feedback
  • Development Methodologies
  • Defining Career/Growth Plans
  • Hiring and Firing
  • Conducting Interviews
  • Ensuring Diversity
  • Public Speaking

Where to Learn?

  • Oren Ellenbogen
    • SWLW: Mailing list, Website, Book, Slack
  • Michael Lopp (a.k.a. Rands)
    • Rands in Repose: Blog, Books, Slack
  • Markus Blankenship
    • Blog, books, Slack, Website, Mentoring, YouTube
  • Camille Fournier
    • Rent the Runway: Blog, Book, Twitter
  • Siddhant Goel
    • Developer To Manager: Interviews, Blog
  • ​Tom Bartel
    • Trivago: Blog, YouTube

But…
Is it
worth it?

The Challenges

New ​Responsibility

You will own things that were never yours.

Performance

Your success is now the success of your team.

What

goes without saying

must

be said.

Meetings

You will talk.

You will talk a lot.

Multitasking

Many things will happen

at the same time

all the time.

Imposter Syndrome

What are you doing here?

How long until someone figures out that you should not be there?

The Good Things

Culture

You are in the right place to identify and grow the culture of your team

Improvement

You help others

grow

Improvement #2

You

grow

Find your own Path

Thank you!

@elbrujohalcon

From Developer to Manager and Back Again (DevDayAR Version)

By Brujo Benavides

From Developer to Manager and Back Again (DevDayAR Version)

@ DevDayAR

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