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Level Up Your Career - PHP South Africa Keynote

Avatar for Ben Edmunds Ben Edmunds
September 28, 2017
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Level Up Your Career - PHP South Africa Keynote

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Ben Edmunds

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Transcript

  1. Level Up Career your

  2. Who is this guy? Who is this guy? Ben Edmunds

    @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com

  3. Who is this guy? Who is this guy? Ben Edmunds

    Open Source Author PHP Town Hall Podcast CTO at Mindfulware
  4. None

  5. Communication

  6. Communication IS KING

  7. Co-Workers

  8. None

  9. Empathy Co-Workers

  10. Work Hard Co-Workers

  11. Clarify Repeat Repeat Co-Workers

  12. Constructive Code Reviews Co-Workers

  13. Lend a Hand Co-Workers

  14. Golden Rule Co-Workers

  15. Confront Issues $frustration++ Co-Workers

  16. Allies Co-Workers

  17. Bosses

  18. None

  19. Direct Boss Management etc… Bosses

  20. What are you doing? Bosses

  21. Roadblocks Bosses

  22. Burn Out Bosses

  23. Stop Burn Out Bosses

  24. Bad Boss Bosses

  25. Quit! Bosses

  26. Clients

  27. None

  28. All of the Above Clients

  29. Communication is even more important Clients

  30. Clarify / Repeat What You’re Doing Allies Clients

  31. Negotiation Clients

  32. Be their Secret Weapon Clients

  33. Solutions Clients

  34. Excelling

  35. Excelling

  36. None

  37. Don’t? Excelling

  38. Volunteer Take Responsibility Excelling

  39. High Visibility Quality Demos Excelling

  40. Learn Convey Ideas Convince Excelling

  41. Docs Excelling

  42. GET SHIT DONE Excelling

  43. Say NO Excelling

  44. Specialize

  45. Become the Expert Specialize

  46. New Tech Specialize

  47. Career Progression

  48. Career Progression Jr -> Mid -> Sr -> Lead ->

    Architect / Principal

  49. Career Progression Jr -> Mid -> Sr -> Lead ->

    Management

  50. Management != Dev++ Career Progression

  51. Open Source

  52. None

  53. Create the next Rails ??? Profit Open Source

  54. Developer = Bad User Open Source

  55. PRSTFU Open Source

  56. Recruit Delegate Open Source

  57. Get Started Docs Open Source

  58. Issues Features Open Source

  59. Appreciate Feedback Say NO Open Source

  60. Open Source Guilt Open Source

  61. Have fun! Open Source

  62. Q/A TIME! Ben Edmunds @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com

  63. Resources

  64. None

  65. GuiltTrip.io

  66. Thanks! @benedmunds http://benedmunds.com joind.in/talk/33603