Band of Coders Show

Today’s episode focuses on how to make the transition from being an individual contributor to a higher-level managerial role in your company. This is for the ones who’ve are constantly asking questions on how to make the system better, from improving the way your team works together, or even thinking of ways to improve your company’s culture. Roman Reynebeau explains what he went through when he made the amazing move from an individual contributor to a managerial role. Want more free leadership content and Band of Coders merchandise? Visit our website at http://bandofcoders.show And make sure you Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/bandofcoders.show

We’re focusing on the infamous lone wolf archetype in today’s episode, and how one engineer (Mat Weiss) was able to realize how a team-centered approach to this leadership would have his team succeeding in the best way possible. If you’ve had problems relying on your team, asking for help, understanding the benefits of letting go of control, and want to learn how to create more inspiration and reliability in your team, this episode is for you. Find more episodes, articles, and merch on our website at http://bandofcoders.show Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/bandofcoders.show

Today’s episode we’re focusing on understanding our end-users in a smarter way. As leaders, we do our best to know who we’re building these products for, however, our guest today, Roberto Gutierrez wants to give us a deeper look into how our products are potentially being used and how we can do a better job at being aware of the nuanced use cases, and even at the end of our episode, we’ll talk about what can go wrong when we don’t know about these use cases. View more episodes, articles, and merch at http://bandofcoders.show Visit and follow our Instagram! http://instagram.com/bandofcoders.show

How can tech leaders ‘push-back’ on an idea or deadline in a way that is productive and helpful for their project outcome? This episode is broken down into three parts – Tony Cassara brings us through specific examples of pushing-back with project deadlines, communication in code reviews, and why push-back is considered an art. Get more free content and merchandise at http://bandofcoders.show Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/bandofcoders.show

What does it take to become a valuable "Unicorn" in the tech industry? Today's guest is Pia Malika, a coder/designer and new marketing enthusiast. Her and I talk about becoming a Unicorn in the tech world, so what’s a Unicorn, you ask? — It’s someone who has double or triple talents that make them VERY valuable to their team and their organization. If you’re a multi-passionate techie, listen to this episode to find out how to combine your talents and curiosities in a way that adds value to your projects. • Follow us on instagram at http://instagram.com/bandofcoders.show • Visit our website at http://bandofcoders.show • Shop our merchandise at http://shop.bandofcoders.show  

Today we’ve got Tony Cassara on the show talking about what it takes to be a world class leader when you’re leading a team towards a tight deadline, in Tony’s case, launching a new feature in only one quarter. We cover topics such as proper milestone planning, delegating things to your team, all the way to making compromises in the name of getting the project done, and done well. **The opinions stated on this podcast are Tony Cassara's and do not represent the opinions of Thrive Market.

Today Steve and I are talking about creating and managing FREEDOM for yourself as a leader in software development, both professionally and personally. We’re droppin' some wisdom bombs, and…if you stay till the end, you’ll hear how Freedom is not just an idea to want, it’s a process to live, and if you reject any part of the the process, it won’t feel that good. Let’s make freedom feel good. Whether you’re an independent contractor, or a leader in a startup, or corporation, we’ve got your back in today’s episode.

Haytham Allos has been in the game for more than 20 years, and has a lot to teach us about what it takes to grow your competency as a leader, at every level of leadership. You’ll hear today about how at the young age of 25, he was asked to build his first team (with impressive salary incentives), was put into one of the most stressful career situations he’s ever experienced as a leader. If you stick with us till the end of today’s episode, you’ll hear Haytham’s one brilliant piece of advice on the ONE thing to do when you’re in the thick of some intense leadership growing pains.

What does it look and feel like to take a large career leap as software developer? Steve shows us how he went from art school, to being a self taught developer, all the way to the time when his Band of Coders leadership position popped up as an opportunity. Steve from day one has been obsessed with learning, and will show us what is takes to be committed to figuring things out even when times feel very risky, aka, when you’re looking at leaving everything behind in your career.

Today we introduce the one model that has helped us increase the success rate of deliverables in our teams, it’s called the VEAC communication tool. If you apply this to your team, we guarantee you’ll be experiencing higher quality work as well as more of your team members sticking to their original deadlines. Oh, and about the podcast intro you’re about to hear, boxer briefs are definitely for everyone.