Being Staff Plus - Ian Cooper - NDC Oslo 2024

This talk was recorded at NDC Oslo in Oslo, Norway. #ndcoslo #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper
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For a long period of time the only path that organizations offered developers who wanted to grow their influence was the management track. In recent years organizations have begun to offer individual contributor roles beyond senior developer such as staff or principal engineer.
Staff Plus roles differ from senior engineering roles and require new skill sets to influence, guide and shape the engineering direction of an organization and often require the engineer to work independently.
In this presentation, we will cover what you need to know about Staff Plus roles:
Staff Plus Roles and Archetypes
Moving Beyond Code
Technical Leadership
Work on What Matters
We will cover topics around influence without authority, determining where to spend your time, and how to help the engineering teams succeed.
We will finish with an exploration of how you move toward a Staff Plus role

[@kingjustink]

This was a surprisingly fantastic talk that cleared away so much of the cloudiness in my own career. Wish my whole organization would watch this!

[@jazzweather]

A much needed topic 👍

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

I used to do IT and admin work in hospitals, and vaguely remember "being staff plus" was not an ideal situation and required some special patient handling. Bit like being the "lead delivery manager" for a company that's expected to deliver food ;)

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

ah, got my wires crossed, I was thinking of "staph plus"