Alex Bolboacă – A Career Growth Model: The Pyramid of Programming Skillsets
Summary
As a programmer, you are wondering what it takes to grow your career in a fast-changing environment. This talk is about a path for your career growth.
As a manager you are wondering how you can optimize your software development teams. This talk is about a model to use for a rough evaluation and improvement of your teams.
As a business owner, CEO or CTO, your primary request for development teams is to quickly add features. This talk is about a model for optimizing implementation time.
The pyramid of programming skillsets is a model based on the usefulness of programming skills when changing code fast is the most important business objective. Let’s explore five skillset levels I identified when working with teams of programmers around Europe. We will discuss each level and how to move from one level to another.
Duration
30 minutes
Detailed Schedule
Intro – 4′
The importance of change – 5′
Level 1 – 5, description and skills – 10′
How to move from one level to another – 10′
Closing – 1′
What you will learn?
Programmers: how to grow your career
Managers: a model for growing your teams
CEO, CTO: useful information for a strategy of growth of the development capability
Pre-requisites
It’s best to know a little about technical practices and concepts such as: unit testing, TDD, BDD, refactoring, SOLID principles, design patterns.
What’s next?
Grow your career! Grow your teams!
Do the attendees need a laptop?
No
