Kariera developera

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Kariera developera

Zostałem seniorem i co dalej?

25.02.2017 – Boiling Frogs

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Contact information

@michalgruca

michal.gruca@gmail.com

www.rits.pl

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Disclaimer

Opinions in this presentation are my own, and may not reflect Epam point of view. As my employer they were nice enought to allow me to use corporate slide layout.

Don’t treat anything shown in this presentation as official Epam statement, especially during interview

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About me

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1. Fast career path overview

2. Career models

3. How IT landscape looks like

4. Self retro

5. Next steps

Agenda

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CARRER PATH

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Developer career path diagram

Developer

Architect

TeamLeader

SomethingManager

SeniorManager

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DEVELOPERCARRER PATH

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• Junior

• Mid

• Senior

• Tech Lead• Principal

• …

Developer?

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• Writing code

• Setting up infrastructure

• Testing

• Working on requirements

• Recruitment to team

• Teaching and mentoring others

• Designing code and architecture

• Improving SDLC

• …

Developer - requirements

Programmer

Developer

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ARCHITECTCARRER PATH

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• Solution architect

• Data architect

• System architect

• Integration architect

• Enterprise architect

• Business architect

• … architect

Arch-who

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• Strong communication skills

– With technical teams– With business

• Project management skills

– Coordinating related projects– Possibly coordinate team

• Knowledge about protocols and standards

• Deep understanding of business and technical caveats

• Ability to prove correctness of the design

Architect – Requirements

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LEADERCARRER PATH

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• We instead of I

• How to measure my work

• Hero syndrome

• How to motivate people

• Time and priority management

• Communication management

– Formal communication– Filtering of messages– Requirements and goals explanation

May or may not touch the code

Leader – Requirements and issues

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„SOMETHING” MANAGERCARRER PATH

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• Project Manager

• Program Manager

• Product Manager

• Resource Manager

• Delivery Manager

• Technical Manager

• Release Manager

• Quality Manager

• Account Manager

• …

… managers

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• Manager for group of people

• Communication and coordination of company efforts

• Performance (KPI) management

• Often defined by number of direct reports

Rather does not involve coding

Middle level managers - definition

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• Master of (de)motivation

• Expert at corporate culture

• Expert at work regulations

• Thankless job

– „Power” of hiring and firing– „Control” over compensation (within a budget)

Middle level managers – requirements and issues

Michael Vadon

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SENIOR MANAGERCARRER PATH

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• Responsible in front of c-level, clients, shareholders

• Working on KPIs, goals, strategies

• Masters of delegation

• Masters of communication

No tech inside

Senior Management

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Meanwhile at home

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OTHER OPTIONSCARRER PATH

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• Customer relation management

• Invoicing, accounting, legal stuff

• Working alone / remotly

• Less of financial / work stability

• Potentially flexible hours

Contractor / Freelancer / Trainer

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• Freedom

• Stakeholder management

• Little/no stability

• Chance to win big $$$

• Legal / financial expertise required

• Demands time

Entrepreneur / Startup

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OTHER WAY?CARRER

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• Corporate lader

• Growth by change of number of direct reports

• Scaling by the numbers

• Universal across indursties

When to go that way

• We want to solve people problems

• We can’t achieve our goals on our own

• Think about getting out from IT

Vertical – managerial career

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Developer career path diagram

Developer

Architect

TeamLeader

SomethingManager

SeniorManager

Developer

SeniorManager

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• Narrow expertise

– SAP developer– Cobol developer– Java performance tuning– …

• Small job market

• Good money

• Some stability

Specialist

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Developer career path diagram

Developer

Architect

TeamLeader

SomethingManager

SeniorManager

Developer

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• Adding skills

• Adding value on market

• More universal carrer in IT

• Broad market in our industry

Horizontal

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• Dev Op

• Admin

• Polyglots programmers

• Scrum master

• Big data

• Machine learning

• …

Horizontal growth for developer

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Developer career path diagram

Developer

Architect

TeamLeader

SomethingManager

SeniorManager

RubyDeveloper

JavaDeveloper Devop

Scrum master

Architect

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IT Landscape

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• Product development

• Software houses

– Project development– Cooperation with client

• Body leasing

Model

• Offshore

• Onsite

• Nearshore

Types of companies on the market

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• Who the company hires

– Skillset– Seniority– Domain knowledge

• Who is on the market

– Students– Retrained other professions– Self taught – Graduates of related studies– IT Graduates

How do you stand out

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Which way

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My way

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What is important to you

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What is important to you

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• People you work with

• Money

• Working alone / with others

• Flexible work hours

• Trainings, conferences

• Dress code

• Technology

• Working on product / for client

• Long-term stability

• Job title, career path

• Processes / anarchy

What drives you

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• No chance to follow career plan or grow

• Financial destabilization

• Ambition (self or partner)

• Better offer

• Conflicts at work

• Boredom

• …

No chance to change any of that

Change catalysts

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THE PLANCARRER

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COMPETENCY FRAMEWORKCAREER PLAN

Carrer path

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1 2 3 4

Career plan

Lead Developer

• 7 years of experience in the industry

• Able to read and write technical documentation

• Self managing, able to take care of small unit

• Possibly exposed to the client

Team leader

• As previous + 2 years of Lead experience

• Direct discussions with the client on daily basis

• English at least C1 level

• Ability to write technical and user documentation

Solution architect

• As previous + 2 years of experience as Team Leader

• Knowledge about UML notation

• Ability to act as a business analyst if need be

• Ability to still code

Enterprise architect

• As previous + ….

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WHAT I WANT TO DOCARRER

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Perfect week – what you want to do

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Perfect week – what you want to do

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WHAT TO DOHOW TO LIVE

CARRER

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• What I want to do

• What can I do NOW

• What will allow me to do it

Actions – 3 questions

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• Decide what is important to you

• What are your values

– Does your company reflect them

• What other companies are on the market

– Does any one of them reflect your values better

• Can you change your work place

Actions

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As simple as …

Do you need to change anything

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What is your goal

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I love your feedback!

@michalgruca

michal.gruca@gmail.com

www.rits.pl