The Extraordinary Team Of Developers

Daniel Bryant and I did a keynote at Devoxx UK about how individuals can add something to a team to make the team more productive, and overall more awesome.


We mention a number of books, so I've made a list of them here:


Abstract

Rock stars are dead. Ninjas are banished. There are simply too many trashed hotel rooms, dead bodies and failed projects. The age of the individual superhero coder is over.

But if we’re still striving for excellence, what’s replaced the rock-star-ninja-hero programmer?

The team. The team that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Like The Avengers, but with less latex.

In the same way those without super powers, genius levels of intelligence and pots of money were vital to The Avengers, every developer, no matter how much or how little experience they have, brings something important to the team and has the potential to make it better: a nicer place to work, an openness to learning, a focus on clean code or a deeper understanding of the business’ needs.

How can a collection of good developers become a super-performing business-impact-delivering team? What do you, as an individual, add to the mix?

Daniel and Trisha will share stories of individuals and teams who have made an impact (both good and bad!) and offer suggestions for steps we, as individuals, can take to level up our teams.

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  • Trisha Gee

    Trisha is a software engineer, Java Champion and author. Trisha has developed Java applications for finance, manufacturing and non-profit organisations, and she's a lead developer advocate at Gradle.

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