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Managing a team vs. babysitting kids - any differences?

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Have you been promoted from developer to manager recently and feeling lost? Or You’re in programming-power-point business for years and still got surprised by your team? Don’t worry - we’ve been there too and we’re eager to share our experience. And we also have kids...

Being a manager is on one hand attending dozen of courses, hundreds of read books: things you learn at the MBA studies, things you won’t learn at the MBA, psychology in business, human resources, coaching - list goes on and on... On the other hand, people say just be a good person, be consistent, believe in others - that will do. Managing people is as easy as kid’s play… So which is right, which is a way to go?

At this session you will learn how to practically apply a couple of management principles which set up a fundament for managing developers. We will put them to test with real life examples, how we succeeded or how we failed. These obviously are not silver bullets, these work in a certain context - which we won’t miss in our stories.

Are these a key, to make manager’s life so much easier? Are you interested in finding that key?
Bartek Nowakowski Bartek Nowakowski

Computer Science and MBA graduate, responsible for managing IT teams for the last 5 years. Has experience working for different-size companies ranging from small start-ups to corporation that deal with different IT businesses (firmware, device drivers, mobile, eCommerce, social media, big data, financial markets). Currently a senior dev-ops working for Nordea Capital Markets IT providing enterprise applications enabling trading on financial markets. Involved in Polish edition of Washington Business Week. Interested in behavioural economics and psychology.
Kuba Marchwicki Kuba Marchwicki

Jakub has been around software development for past 10 years, wearing multiple hats, getting hands dirty in multiple environments, securing both technical as well as the business side of The Thing. “An engineer with a human friendly interface?”. Some languages, some frameworks, blah blah blah - doesn’t matter. Architect, programmer, manager, technical trainer, tech lead, wannabe entrepreneur, JUG member. There is a fair chance he does non of those those right.