Last night, in Bucharest, technical leaders, software architects, managers and people interested in technical leadership practices met at TechHub. It was a special event where they found out:
- technical leadership practices
- a bit about how to learn them
- a bit about how to apply them
Alexandru Bolboaca welcomed the audience with a few words about the main challenges as architect, CTO or technical lead, from his experience.
He continued with the talk “Winning Technical Strategy for your Product and Teams” where he presented 7 technical leadership practices.
- Align with business
- Assess the situation
- Build a roadmap
- Encourage learning
- Set boundaries
- Execute the roadmap
- Create opportunities
You can find the slides here.
After 15 minutes break the Open Space started. The attendees decided to discuss the following topics:
- Client satisfaction versus value for the client’s business
- Communities of practice
- Continuous integration
- Time management in Agile
- Finding balance between time to market and quality
- Feedback from customers
- Refactoring
The event ended with a retrospective. Some of the things the participants appreciated at the event were:
- Experience sharing: use cases, practices
- Very efficient way of communication (Open Space)
- Active and supportive members
- Best practice – solutions
- New ideas
- Shared information
Since you’re interested in this event, you might also be interested in the workshop “Leading technical teams” from the I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014. Check it out and let us know what do you think.
Thank you again for attending this event. See you at the next edition!
