Crash Course: Technical Leadership
Mentor: Pavlo Poliakov, Principal Engineer at Free2move
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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.
Language of the event: Ukrainian
Mentor: Pavlo Poliakov, 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:
Duration: 3 modules, ~8 hours
Platform: Zoom. We will send you a link to the broadcast the day before the course, and it will also be available on this page. In addition, all materials and recordings of the sessions will be available on the learning platform throughout the year.
Language of the event and presentation: Ukrainian
Program
10.04, 18:00-20:30. Module 1. Being a leader.
- What is technical leadership?
- How to show yourself as a leader?
- 10 characteristics of a technical leader
- We work to be noticed and recognized as a leader, consider promotion (practice).
- We fill out the Brag Document to find out what you already do in addition to your position, and how this can be used for promotion.
- We set SMART goals to increase your visibility in the company.
- We prepare the next steps for your new role.
12.04, 10:00-13:00. Module 2. Hard skills.
- Modern approaches to software development
- Architecture for developers
- Practice. We will consolidate the knowledge gained by developing and justifying a technical architecture for the company according to a brief.
- Practice. Determining key indicators for an effective and maintainable architecture. Measuring architecture. You can only improve what you can measure.
14.04, 18:00-20:30. Module 3. Soft skills.
- Communicating Tech (practice). Using the framework, you will create a simple and understandable explanation for a topic where you are an expert.
- Conflict Resolution & Productive meetings (practice). You will design a meeting yourself that will effectively solve the problem and leave all its participants satisfied and heard.
Mentor: Pavlo Poliakov, Principal Engineer at Free2move.
— 15+ years in the IT industry, of which almost 3 years Staff+
— 10+ years in product companies, had experience as an Engineering Manager, but chose the Staff+ track
— AWS Certified Solutions Architect
— Facilitator of the internal Technical Guidance Training for Senior+ specialists.
— Author of the TG channel GoodDevKnows and articles on Medium and DOU