Team Dynamics And Soft Skills For Developers

NEW COURSE! Differentiate Yourself As A Dev In the Age of AI

What you'll learn

Get better outcomes from your interactions with team members by understanding what "states" your dev team members can be in.

Improve communication and ease conflict management among dev team members.

Successfully manage developers helping them grow, overcoming crisis, and generating better software.

Keep a healthy, useful view of yourself as you transition from role to role and organization to organization.

Differentiate yourself as a dev in the age of AI by having good soft skills!

Requirements

No skills or experience needed

Description

Whether you've learned software development at a school, bootcamp, online, or are entirely self-taught, there is one key aspect to being a developer that you were likely never trained on: how to deal with people on a team.Developers are also team members and, eventually, may become managers. Yet, team dynamics and soft skills are never taught to coders.This course aims to fix that. For coders in the age of AI, soft skills are a differentiator.How Will This Course Help Me?As a coder, designer, and manager for 25 years, I can say that cohesive teams make the best software, and coders who are good communicators and positively contribute to team cohesiveness are rare and extremely valuable.This course will help you make those positive contributions. Along the way you will enjoy your job more, communicate more effectively, build better software, and maybe even show yourself to be someone who can manage others (if that's what you want to do).You'll get a free PDF at the end of the course to help you remember the main points.My goal is to help you to better understand the developers, designers, and managers you work with every day. I provide you a framework to help interact with your team members in the way that maximizes your chances of getting a positive outcome from that interaction.We accomplish that goal by examining two key topics:Team DynamicsA team is a collection of people, and team dynamics is how those people interact with one another.Sometimes coders like to talk as if they're purely analytical, logical beings, not emotional. But that's false. Coders are people. People have various needs and many inputs that determine the output you get from them.We will look at the kinds of "states" that individual team members can be in (I don't say "types" because people can change). Understanding those states helps us to adjust the way we present information to ease the path to a good outcome.We also look at the basic human needs that everyone needs to be provided in order to have good interactions. Things like dignity, agency, and respect.Soft SkillsSoft skills are the particular skills that lead to clarity between team members and good team dynamics.Things like empathy, good communication, and conflict management.In this course we'll discuss concrete, actionable things you can do that improve your soft skills, improving your day-to-day interactions with your team members.Communication Skills Are A Game ChangerPoor communication between team members is an underreported reason for software development failures, scope creep, and bugs.When you learn to communicate better, you improve the quality of your team and the software it produces.You'll learn how to communicate in the specific areas of dev team communication. Things like DMs, e-mail, code reviews, and even your code itself.Managing Developers Is Its Own SkillNo one tells you how to manage devs. Yet you may be asked to do just that (or already are!).There are unique challenges to managing developers and you'll learn techniques to deal with those challenges.You'll learn how to motivate devs, how to deal with crisis (like major bugs), and how to help developers grow as coders and team members.And we'll talk about managing yourself as well! In particular your view of yourself, and how that can help you travel through your career with a healthy sense of your own value.So join me and build your missing developer skill!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 An Important Note

Lecture 3 Team Dynamics and Soft Skills

Section 2: People and Needs

Lecture 4 People and Needs

Lecture 5 Dignity

Lecture 6 Respect

Lecture 7 Agency

Lecture 8 Belonging

Lecture 9 Knowledge and Understanding

Section 3: Inputs/Outputs

Lecture 10 Inputs/Outputs

Lecture 11 Triggers and Responses

Lecture 12 Adapting to People

Section 4: The Dev States

Lecture 13 The Dev States

Lecture 14 The Newbie

Lecture 15 The Overconfident Intermediate

Lecture 16 The Imposter

Lecture 17 The Been Around Awhile

Lecture 18 The Loner Genius

Lecture 19 The Mentor

Section 5: The Designer States

Lecture 20 The Designer States

Lecture 21 The Starving Artist

Lecture 22 The Pseudo-dev

Lecture 23 The Practitioner

Section 6: The Manager States

Lecture 24 The Manager States

Lecture 25 The Former Dev

Lecture 26 The Non-Technical

Lecture 27 The Worth-Prover

Lecture 28 The Leader

Section 7: Communication

Lecture 29 Communication

Lecture 30 Email

Lecture 31 Direct Message

Lecture 32 Video Conference

Lecture 33 In-Person

Lecture 34 Code

Lecture 35 Code Reviews

Section 8: Managing Devs

Lecture 36 Managing Devs

Lecture 37 Everything is a Problem (To Solve)

Lecture 38 Growth

Lecture 39 Agency

Lecture 40 Respect

Lecture 41 Correction

Lecture 42 Praise

Lecture 43 State Transitions

Section 9: Problem Panic to Problem Solving

Lecture 44 Problem Panic to Problem Solving

Lecture 45 Take a Breath

Lecture 46 Be Honest

Lecture 47 Be Empathetic and Determined

Lecture 48 It's Not Shocking

Lecture 49 Breathing Room

Lecture 50 Focus on the Problem, Not the People

Lecture 51 Challenge Assumptions

Section 10: Your View of Yourself

Lecture 52 Your View of Yourself

Lecture 53 Humility

Lecture 54 Modesty

Lecture 55 Self-Confidence

Lecture 56 Joining a Company

Lecture 57 Handling Promotion

Lecture 58 Leaving a Company

Section 11: Conclusion

Lecture 59 Team Dynamics and Soft Skills PDF

Lecture 60 Conclusion

Developers of all levels looking to differentiate themselves and improve their communication, team dynamics, and management abilities within dev teams.