Lunch 'n' Lead
What I learned at the Lead Developer Conference
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Camille Fournier
Cloning yourself isn't an option: Becoming a multiplier, because you don't horizontally scale
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Cloning yourself
- Only a linear multiplier
- Overvalues technical skills
- Bottlenecks change over time
Bottlenecks over Time
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Three great virtues
- Laziness
- Impatience
- Hubris
Laziness
- Train your replacement
- Don't be a bottleneck or
a single point of failure
Impatience
- Prune, cut, prioritize
- Sense for where the value lies
- The mythical 10x engineer
Hubris
- Confidence in own opinions
- Be squeaky wheel (but bring oil)
- Be a multiplier by improving
things for everyone
Impact vs. Influence
- Impact is the difference you make
- Influence is your ability to make it
- Is earned rather than conferred
- Gathering feedback is important
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Patrick Kua
Riding the paradox as a Lead Developer
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Staying technical
vs.
Enabling people
Going faster
vs.
Learning
Delivering
vs.
Innovating
Consistency
vs.
Improvement
Being transparent
vs.
Protecting the team
Business needs
vs.
Technical needs
Riding the Paradox
- Be an adaptive leader
- Become comfortable with uncertainty
- Don't take a binary approach
Sam Barnes
People are weird, I'm weird
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Individuals
vs.
Teams
Hiring
- Be honest with candidates
- Don't hire "rockstars"
Team bonding
- Team charters
- Name
- Logo
- What the team should be
- What the team believes in
- Team radar
Individuals
- Introverts and extroverts
- A spectrum, and not fixed
- Beware narrow perception of 'normal'
- See Susan Cain (book and TED talk)
Russ Miles
The technical journey to Microservices
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Antifragility
Dan North
Beyond Developer
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You are...
- A developer
- In a team
- Building a product
- On a platform
- In a department
- In an organisation
Becky Stafford and
Preet Sandhu
Adaptive Testing
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Oren Ellenbogen
Building Happier Engineering Teams
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Una Kravets
A Primer on Performance
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Cate Huston
12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better Interviewer
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Trisha Gee
Staying Ahead of the Curve
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Lightning Talks
Graham Gilchrist
Building reproducible dev environments with Docker
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James Abley
Go - I made all the mistakes so you don't have to
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Dan Webb
Why you should be checking out Rust
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Ben Godfrey
Go faster with Angular
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Ben King
From web developer to mobile developer with NativeScript
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Junade Ali
Practical Web Security
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Videos
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