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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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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit.

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People of Perficient: Meet Rodrigo Vargas, Technical Architect from Chile

Perficient

An important milestone in my growth was the transition from a purely technical role to a technical leadership role. Perficient gave me the opportunity to lead multidisciplinary teams on complex projects, allowing me to develop project management and team leadership skills.

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Software Development Costs: A Complete Guide for Founders, Executives and Tech Leads

Mobilunity

Step 1: Analyze Your Project Form a 360-degree vision of your future project. Outline the project scope and core features of your product, getting prepared for the second step of estimation. Step 2: Breakdown Your Budget There are 4 primary development elements that form the total cost of every project. Development 2.

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Software Development Costs: A Complete Guide for Founders, Executives and Tech Leads

Mobilunity

Don’t Your Attractive Heading Step 1: Analyze Your Project Form a 360-degree vision of your future project. Outline the project scope and core features of your product, getting prepared for the second step of estimation. Project Management 3. Development 2. Quality Assurance 4. UI/UX Design.

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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

At any moment, different people on the team can step up and provide technical leadership. This is called Shared Leadership. When a team works this way, the product is generally of higher quality because diverse technical perspectives were brought to bear. Scrum works by building teams.

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

The typical job description for many engineering manager roles is action-packed. It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on.