Lead Developer — Part Time?
summary
A Java Lead Developer describes balancing the broad responsibilities of a lead role—mentoring and supporting developers, handling technical and team conflicts, interfacing with customers and other departments, estimating effort and deadlines with project management, and continuing to code—while working part-time. The talk focuses on doing this role in a warehouse logistics project from the perspective of a single parent handling home office and homeschooling for school-age twins.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:08Reasons for part-time
- 7:09Why Lead Developer?
- 9:19Project structure and teamwork
- 15:07Lead Developer tasks
- 21:12Part-time and team organization
- 27:59Team development and challenges
- 30:30Part-time limits
- 35:29Daily life with kids and home office
- 41:17Kids and team communication
- 45:10Conclusion
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