Anomalous Training
Leadership training for technologists, by technologists.
Technology Team Leadership 2-day course - £1000 + VAT
This two-day intensive course features training, workshops, and games to give team leads, tech leads, and engineering managers an expansive grounding in being team multipliers. It covers the lifecycle of technology engineering within a team, from hiring through growth to eventual exit. We also look at career growth for leads and how businesses work behind the scenes.
Topics covered include
What Is A Team Lead? Interviews. Onboarding. First Week. First Month. The Manifesto For Agile Software Development. Business Agility. Best Practice. Build vs Buy. Good vs Fast. Working with Product Managers. Cloud. TDD. Automation. Guilds. Performance Reviews. Feedback. Emotional Safety. Diversity. Good Will. Resignations. Dismissal. Team Resilience. Team Structure. Adaptive Teams. Managing Up. Promotion. Technical Strategy. Operations. Customers. Opex vs Capex. Perms, Contractors & Consultants.
Each attendee is asked to submit an issue they are currently facing or have faced at the beginning of the course. The final session of the course is to review these challenges and work on solutions as a team. Optionally all attendees are invited to attend dinner, at their own cost, in an excellent local restaurant to keep the conversations going in a less formal atmosphere.
The next COHORT will be in late May.
Who?
Sasha Bilton has spent three decades building digital products, first as a developer then as a technology leader. His transition from senior individual contributor to leadership was a challenge, and he achieved it with little support. Now alongside his fractional leadership work, he brings opinionated, experience, and data-led training to team leads and engineering managers going through the same journey to power them up quickly and effectively.
Why?
Engineering managers are the heart of a development team. They are there to multiply each member’s efforts, are key to retention and enable heads of engineering to focus on strategy rather than low-level operational concerns. Yet many EMs & TLs receive no training, or generic business courses. Their own leaders are busy, and struggle to get the time to teach, coach and mentor them.
When?
The next off-site north London training class is held on 26th & 27th of March 2024. Contact us for further onsite and offsite courses.
How?
Anomalous Training provides on and offsite in-person training for groups no larger than eight attendees. Over 2 days we focus on five pillars of software engineering team leadership: onboarding, performing, leaving, strategic and operational areas. Travelling through the lifecycle of a developer within a team, we explore how to create an effective, safe and fertile environment for great software engineering. Each topic is discussed in detail, after which the attendees can workshop through their challenges and experiences, learning from each other too. At the end of the first day, everyone is invited to dine together to keep the conversations going in a relaxed environment. At the end of the course, they benefit from an invitation-only online communication channel, including one for their own cohort.
Off-site training is either in north London or in central London.