Work with, manage, and lead a technical team with confidence. Learn how to quickly get up to speed with your team's work, communicate effectively with technical people, and more.
Managing and Working with a Technical Team for Nontechnical Professionals
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- You don't need to be technical to work with technical people
- Who can benefit from this course?
- Identifying your role in working with a technical team
- Understanding what you need to know
- Communicating with technical people
- Getting past uncertainty as a nontechnical person working with a technical team
- Getting up to speed on the work of your technical team
- Understanding the manager's role on a technical team
- Challenges of managing a technical team
- Establishing process and product standards on a technical team
- Enforcing business processes on a technical team
- Balancing stakeholder needs on a technical team
- Developing your team members
- The role of the leader on a technical team
- Clarifying goals for the team
- Understanding your team's strengths
- Supporting flexible working habits
- Making room for teams and individuals to grow
- What comes next?
Taught by
Phil Gold
