Leading Software Teams

Learn what it takes to move beyond mere management to inspiring leadership. Many never receive any leadership training before being thrust into a leadership role. This presentation gives you a set of frameworks and thinking tools to help you understand various leadership styles, as well as providing you with concrete next-steps you can try with your team.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, once said, “You manage things; you lead people.” Leading software teams is challenging, difficult work. However, being a leader can also be inspiring and energizing. Whether you are an manager, architect, Scrum Master, director, project manager, dev lead or simply aspiring to lead others, you will come away from with this session with a fresh understanding of what it takes to influence change in others, and inspired to become a great team leader.

About Paul Rayner

Paul is a seasoned design coach and leadership mentor, helping teams ignite their design skills via Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). He gets teams unstuck through intensive coaching workshops and hands-on pair programming, combined with focused one-on-one leadership mentoring. His company Virtual Genius, provides training and coaching in collaborative design for agile teams. Paul actively serves the community: teaching classes in BDD and DDD, contributing to OSS, and co-leading the DDD Denver Meetup group.

Look for him speaking at user groups and at local and international conferences. Paul is from Perth, Australia, but chooses to live, work and play with his wife and two children, in Denver, Colorado. He tweets with an Australian accent at @ThePaulRayner and blogs at thepaulrayner.com

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