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Being Staff Plus - Ian Cooper - NDC Oslo 2024

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Ian Cooper discusses the transition from senior developer to Staff and Principal roles, focusing on influence, leadership, and business alignment.

This talk was recorded at NDC Oslo in Oslo, Norway. #ndcoslo #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you: ndcconferences.com ndcoslo.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and learn every day: / @NDC Follow our Social Media! facebook.com/ndcconferences twitter.com/NDC_Conferences instagram.com/ndc_conferences/ For a long period of time the only path that organizations offered developers who wanted to grow their influence was the management track. In recent years organizations have begun to offer individual contributor roles beyond senior developer such as staff or principal engineer. Staff Plus roles differ from senior engineering roles and require new skill sets to influence, guide and shape the engineering direction of an organization and often require the engineer to work independently. In this presentation, we will cover what you need to know about Staff Plus roles: * Staff Plus Roles and Archetypes * Moving Beyond Code * Technical Leadership * Work on What Matters We will cover topics around influence without authority, determining where to spend your time, and how to help the engineering teams succeed. We will finish with an exploration of how you move toward a Staff Plus role

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent talk on long-term career progression and the realities of individual contributor roles beyond senior developer.

u/gravalaxin r/ExperiencedDevs • Recommends

On “Business knowledge vs Tech knowledge, which would hold more value? ”

Many technical engineers have to become more business orientated if they are going to progress in their careers, so the long-term advantage is with business knowledge, or at least being able to lead within the business in applying its knowledge. I watched this talk recently, it resonated clearly for me and touched on this topic: "Being Staff Plus - Ian Cooper - NDC Oslo 2024" link to this video
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u/TheRealKidkudiin r/ExperiencedDevs • Recommends

On “I resigned as a tech lead. I want to know why people choose this path”

I think this is a great talk about long term career progression for developers. A great takeaway point made is pretty much exactly what you mention here - it’s actually a *good* thing for senior developers to be the best coders in the company. Once you get promoted past senior, it might be a tough pill to swallow, but the guys below you probably *will* be better coders than you and that’s not a bad thing.
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u/lerrigattoin r/ExperiencedDevs • Recommends

On “What makes a staff/principal software engineer?”

I recommend Ian Cooper's video on the subject: link to this video
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