Mentoring: A Two Way Street • Larene Le Gassick & Damian Maclennan • YOW! 2018
This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2018. #GOTOcon #YOW
Larene Le Gassick - Accessibility Team Engineering Lead at Canva @larenelegassick8774
Damian Maclennan - Consultant CTO, Software Architect, Trainer & Technologist @damianmaclennan9856
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ABSTRACT
“That’s not good enough”
That was Larene’s response to when Damian told her “you’re doing a great job, keep doing what you’re doing”.
This talk is about the journey of a grizzled industry veteran and a young ambitious engineer thrown together in a small startup environment.
Forced to establish fast #FeedbackCycle, not just iterating on the product we were developing, but also how we worked on it together. We were both pushed out of our comfort zones to create a #productive #collaboration.
We’ve distilled some of our lessons from this process into a handful of tools you can apply straight away, whether you’re seeking mentoring, or are in a #TechLeadership/manager position.
We’ll share how we give and receive feedback, how #mentors can grow the #TechnicalSkills of more junior people, how men can mentor women more effectively, and how even the most hardened “seen it all” of us can grow individually. [...]
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know •
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know •
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies •
Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications •
Geoffrey West • Scale •
Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow •
#Mentoring #CTO #HowToCTO #TechLead #LareneLeGassick #DamianMaclennan #YOWcon
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