Crash Course: Technical Leadership

How to grow professionally after a Senior position? Is it necessary to become a manager? No, you can continue to develop in the engineering direction! For this, there is a position of tech leader in IT companies, which involves the development of a technical strategy, the selection of technologies and mentoring.

Mentor: Pavlo Polyakov, Principal Engineer at Free2move

True leadership is gained through experience, knowledge and self-improvement. In this course you will learn the skills and tools to help you prepare for this role

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• Create and validate architecture for a specific task
• Use leadership to achieve your goals and company goals
• Understand business needs and be an expert in the domain area
• Coordinate interaction between teams
• Participate in making strategic decisions
• Telling about complex things to people who do not have relevant knowledge

In this intensive, you will consider in detail the role of a technical leader: hard and soft skills, as well as preparation for promotion to this position. You will immediately consolidate the whole theory with practice

What will you get at the exit?

• Prepare a solid foundation for solving any technical issues with a focus on development and support
• Able to explain your position to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Learn how to help teams resolve conflicts and reach consensus
• You will become the tech leader you want to work with

Who will be interested?

• Middle+ and Senior developers
• Software architectures
• Technical professionals who need universal skills to increase their expertise

Format:

Date and time: October 1, 2 and 8, 18:30 - 20:30, (Kyiv time, GMT+3).

Duration: 3 modules of ~2 hours each (depends on practice)

Platform: Zoom. We will send you a link to the broadcast on the eve of the course, and it will also be available on this page.

Language of the event and presentation: Ukrainian

Program

The first module. To be a leader:
• What is technical leadership?
• 10 main characteristics of a technical leader
• We work to be noticed and recognized in the company (practice) :
  • Fill out a Brag Document to reveal what you already do in addition to your position and how it can be used for promotion.
  • We set SMART goals to increase your visibility in the company. It is easier to move up the career ladder when not only your team knows about you. :)
  • We are preparing the next steps for your new role.

Module 2. Hard skills:
• Architecture for developers
• Modern approaches to software development
• Practice. We will consolidate the acquired knowledge by developing and justifying the technical architecture for the company according to the brief. You'll learn how to design architecture that solves today's business challenges. And most importantly, you will be able to explain why your chosen architecture will work in a specific situation.

Module 3. Soft skills:
• Communicating Tech (practice). Using a framework, you will create a simple and clear explanation for a topic in which you are an expert. You will learn to confidently create interesting and understandable presentations on any technical (and not only) topics. It will be easier for you to "sell" your ideas and attract support
• Conflict Resolution & Productive meetings (practice). You yourself design a meeting that will allow you to effectively solve the problem and leave all its participants satisfied and heard.