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Effective Technical Leadership

NeverFriday

Some notes from the Effective Technical Leadership talk given by David Byttow. Attributes of an effective technical lead. Knowledge: “A strong tech lead’s knowledge is broad and deep…A tech lead should be a master of several technologies.” ” Activities.

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Should You Build in-house or Outsource Development of Your Mobile Apps?

CTOvision

It is simply like a website or any other critical software development – if those are in-house then mobile apps should also definitely be in-house. Pick a person, ideally in a senior position – maybe a Solutions Architect or a very Senior Software Developer who wants to add to his or her skillset.

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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. how to hire them, motivate them, and lead them to develop and deliver great products.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

I love pair programming and mobbing because every small decision is debated and challenged. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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Collaboration and Notqmail with Amitai Schleier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

On this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Amitai Schleier, discuss a new project Amitai is working on regarding reviving an old, but useful, open-source program called qmail. But you then used your technical leadership skills to wrangle some folks together and things are now moving.

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Pitfalls of Agile Transformations

LeanEssays

This may come as a surprise, but quite frankly, Scrum says nothing about how to develop software, nothing about how to deliver defect-free code and nothing about techniques for faster production releases. If you aren’t heading toward these or similar technical practices and you think you are doing an agile transformation, think again.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

We’d be sure not to miss “Driving Innovation through Diversity” by Grace Francisco, VP of Developer Relations at Roblox, and “The Future of Software Development” by Rod Cope, CTO of Rogue Wave Software. In 2018, the Keynote Speaker was Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management on the.NET team at Microsoft.