What you should know building a Tech Lead community

26/03/2021 44 min Temporada 2021 Episodio 77
What you should know building a Tech Lead community

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Episode Synopsis

Don't miss our story of the introduction of the Tech Leads

During the podcast, you will find out what Tech Leads are and why we need to build this community of Tech Leads at bol.com. You will learn how we approached this and avoid hiding the Tech Leads in ivory towers. The two tech leads and an IT director share best practices and pitfalls (and what we learned from them).

The Why and What of our Tech Lead Community

Tech Lead Community

Why did we start to define the role?

What is the Tech Lead for bol.com,

Responsibilities

Product Tech Lead

Space Tech Lead

It's a fun challenge and it's taking time" - Eduardo da Silva

The backlog of the tech leads

Backlog of community

Tech Radar

Tech Vision

Backlog Space Tech Leads

Cloud Migration

Backlog of products

Examples

Introduction of the role (process)

Definition

Scale, number of Tech Leads needed

Rollout / Hiring part

Building the Tech Lead Community

Lessons Learned so far

Best Practices

Pitfalls / Challenges.GuestsAlexandra Egher; Product Tech Lead at bol.comMirko van Ede; Director IT - Shopping & Marketing Technology at bol.comEduardo da Silva; Tech Leader & Sociotechnical Architect at bol.comNotesThe book Talking with Tech Leads by Patrick Kua.We talked about API design and development in a previous episode.