» Learning Hours - Hands-on Team Building for Developers «


Abstract

As a tech lead or senior developer, you’re expected to mentor and train more junior team members - coaching is already part of your job. In this training with Emily Bache, you’ll learn skills and concrete activities you can use to bring on others and build up your team. This course will help you to get started with “learning hour” sessions. These are not vacuous “icebreaker” style fun and games, the focus is on real hard technical skills, especially around TDD, refactoring, handling legacy code and better OO design. We’ll talk about structuring a session with “Training from the Back of the Room” and how Learning Goals can help you to plan and deliver relevant content. Real technical coaching is about leading team activities that strengthen your collaboration and ability to discuss code and make better design decisions. You don’t need to be a full-time technical coach to make a difference in your organization.

This session is open for everyone but particularly aimed at tech leads and senior developers. Bring a laptop in order to access the online Miro board we will use in the session.

Bio

Emily Bache is an independent consultant, YouTuber and Technical Coach. She works with developers, training and coaching effective agile practices like Refactoring and Test-Driven Development. Emily has worked with software development for 25 years, written two books and teaches courses on platforms including Pluralsight and O'Reilly. A frequent conference speaker, Emily has been invited to keynote at prestigious developer events including EuroPython, Craft and ACCU. Emily founded the Samman Technical Coaching Society in order to promote technical excellence and support coaches everywhere.