LeadDev leadership workshops
June 26, 2023

Much like technical skills, there is both science and art, theory and experience, to becoming good at leading, managing, coaching, mentoring & developing people. In this workshop, we’ll look at some of that theory, share experiences and boost your ability to develop yourself and others.

 
In this workshop, we'll cover

• The science behind motivation
• Characteristics of high performing teams
• Coaching & mentoring
• Managing & leading
• Developing yourself & others
• Giving & receiving feedback

Change is one of the only certainties for an engineering leader - be it daily changes in agile software development, during a product pivot, an acquisition, a high-growth period, or … well, a pandemic. And times of change are some of the hardest times to lead in - not only do leaders need to be able to respond to change and deal with high degrees of ambiguity, but also take charge of creating change and steer their teams and their organisation in the right direction. So how can you be an effective leader when the horizon is uncertain?

Topic

In this workshop, we’ll explore how to be more intentional when leading and managing through change. You’ll get to know practical, tried tools and techniques to help you and your teams succeed in driving and responding to change. We’ll examine how to react to change and support your teams, and how you as an individual can be a change leader.

What will you learn?

• How to become a confident change leader for your teams in times of change 
• Strategies for driving change effectively in your organisation and becoming an enabler for your team
• The tools to help your teams thrive and succeed in times of high change
• Communication and alignment techniques to ensure your message is heard clearly and understood
• How to manage team and organisational dynamics that occur in periods of uncertainty

Who should attend?

This workshop is aimed at all engineering leaders who are looking to get more intentional and deliberate about driving change in their organizations. It will be particularly useful for leaders in organisations with high degrees of ambiguity (e.g. teams operating in agile environments, fast-growing organisations, start-ups or large organizations undergoing transformation).

Job titles include:

• Tech Lead
• Engineering Manager
• Senior Engineering Manager
• Staff Engineer
• Senior Staff Engineer
• Head of Engineering
• Director of Engineering

Agenda

Introductions

Part 1: Creating the environment for change

Part 2: Leading confidently with the change leadership framework

Lunch

Part 3: Making it real - Scenario-based exercises with group discussions

Closing remarks

As engineering leaders, your success is the success of your teams. And while success can take many forms, a key indicator is how effectively and quickly your team is able to deliver on its goals and ship software. But with so many variables that contribute to how successful a team is - how can you work out what to change to really move the needle? And what should you be measuring in the first place?

Metrics are tough to agree upon - and that’s where DORA comes in. DORA was developed through a multi-year research program led by the DevOps Research and Assessment team - who outlined the key things to be measured and how these metrics can be used to transform your teams into high-performing machines.

What will you learn?

This workshop will help you put the insights of the research framework into practice. You will leave the workshop able to:

• Describe your team’s current software delivery process
• Set baseline performance metrics
• Benchmark and compare your performance with your peers in the industry
• Use DORA’s predictive analysis to identify where to make your next improvement
• Set goals to ensure you hit your goals

By the end of this workshop you will have one improvement story to add to your backlog as you take the next step toward becoming an elite performing team. And, you’ll be able to repeat the process with your own team in your quest to getting better at getting better!

Who should attend 

This workshop is for anyone who takes part in the software delivery and operations lifecycle. Primarily the audience will be engineering leaders, but this may include roles like product management, architecture quality assurance, compliance and security, operations, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, user experience, release engineering, and more.

This workshop is targeted at leaders, whose responsibility it is to ensure their teams are building, deploying, and operating at the highest level.