Prezentacja na temat możliwości kariery programisty, jak ją kształtować, ważnych rzeczy na któe zwracać uwagę planując co robić w życiu.

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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
Team
Leader
Something
Manager
Senior
Manager

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DEVELOPER
CARRER 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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ARCHITECT
CARRER 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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LEADER
CARRER 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” MANAGER
CARRER 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 MANAGER
CARRER 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 OPTIONS
CARRER 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
Team
Leader
Something
Manager
Senior
Manager
Developer
Senior
Manager

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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
Team
Leader
Something
Manager
Senior
Manager
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
Team
Leader
Something
Manager
Senior
Manager
Ruby
Developer
Java
Developer
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 PLAN
CARRER

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COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK
CAREER 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 DO
CARRER

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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 DO
HOW 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 …

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What is your goal

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@michalgruca
michal.gruca@gmail.com
www.rits.pl