Tech Lead Masterclass
Your 6 week training to go from Engineer to Tech Lead. Instructed by industry experts.
✅ Practical tools and techniques for tech leadership
✅ Join a community of like-minded Tech Leaders
✅ Online live learning in a small group
Unlock your potential and become an outstanding Tech Lead
Accelerate your career as a Tech Lead by strengthening your leadership skills. In this 6 week online Masterclass, you will be equipped with a rich toolbox to master your role as a Tech Lead and overcome typical challenges along the way. Join the Masterclass, train your skills, experience lively discussions with like-minded tech professionals and be part of an unique community.
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Who is it for?
Experienced Engineers
In Software, Data, Ops who want to develop into a Tech Lead role
New Tech Leads
Staff Engineers, Architects and other Leads who want to set a good foundation for mastery
Experienced Tech Leads
who want to learn new tools or level-up their leadership skills
Your 6 week learning path
Week 1: Your Role as Tech Lead
Define your Tech Lead role and understand the transition from Engineer to Tech Lead
- Your tasks and responsibilities
- Clarify expectations (your own and from others)
- Different archetypes and titles
- Discover typical challenges and myths
- How to measure / evaluate the impact of your work
- Further career steps and options
Week 2: Task and Time Management
Learn how to balance multiple responsibilities and to set focus on high impact tasks
- Balancing multiple responsibilities and deadlines
- Setting clear goals and objectives
- Manage your calendar, set focus times
- Fokus on tasks with high leverage and impact
- How to keep track of all your tasks
- Self care - leading by example
- Lead effective meetings
- Tools for self management
Week 3: Strategy, Alignment and Communication
Improve your strategic thinking, design a technical vision and communicate effectively
- How to define a technical vision?
- Design a roadmap, set milestones and action items
- Influence others to commit to a strategy
- Successfully manage stakeholders
- Seeking alignment and consensus
- How to get sponsorship and management buy-In
- Optional: Working with external partners, e.g. vendor and agencies
- Risk management, aka calculate risks and chances
Week 4: Tools, Concepts and Design
Learn best practices to create technical concepts and develop facilitation skills
- The importance of proper documentation
- Writing skills for documentation and announcement notes
- Create design docs
- Manage knowledge and knowledge flow
- Lead a design process (asynchronously)
- Develop facilitation and visualization skills
- How to detect trends, evaluate them adequately and stay up to date
Week 5: Leveling Up
Learn how you can transfer your knowledge to team members and build opportunities for growth
- The importance of knowledge sharing and leveling up
- Different ways for leveling up (mentoring, coaching, sponsoring)
- Best practices for code reviews
- How to motivate and appreciate team members
- Creating opportunities for growth (without formal authority)
- The power of delegation
- Effective formats for knowledge sharing in the team
- Time for experimentation and innovation
Week 6: Quantify Work, Measure Success
Add a data-driven approach to your work and learn how to improve productivity and satisfaction in your team
- How to measure success?
- What are metrics and performance indicators?
- How to quantify progress, productivity, quality and satisfaction?
- Common pitfalls and limitations
- How to discover valuable metrics?
- Getting started with metrics
What people say about our Masterclass
I can highly recommend working with Tech Leaders Academy. The trainers know first hand what they are talking about and it is fun having them around. The Tech Lead Masterclass is extremely comprehensive, yet condense, so you can efficiently learn on the side in 6 weeks all it takes to become a great Tech Lead.
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Tech Lead Masterclass
🗓️ 6 week program, 3-4 hours per week
👥 Interactive live-workshops (max. 10 people)
🎥 Inspirational video content
⚒️ Toolkit and additional material
💬 Q&A between the sessions
🗣️ Active discussions and exchange with peers
🏅 Certificate of completion
🇬🇧 In English
📆 Live workshop dates
will be announced soon
Price: 1,900 € + VAT
Week 1: Your Role as Tech Lead
Define your Tech Lead role and understand the transition from Individual Contributor to Tech Lead.
Week 2: Task and Time Management
Learn how to balance multiple responsibilities and to set focus on high impact tasks.
Week 3: Strategy, Alignment & Communication
Improve your strategic thinking, design a technical vision and communicate effectively.
Week 4: Tools, Concepts & Design
Learn best practices to create technical concepts and develop your facilitation skills.
Week 5: Leveling Up
Learn how you can transfer your knowledge to team members and build opportunities for growth.
Week 6: Quantify Work, Measure Success
Add a data-driven approach to your work and learn how to improve productivity and satisfaction in your team.
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TEAM
We help you become a Tech Lead
Our team brings full commitment and dedication to this Masterclass. They will teach you the most necessary skills, share their first-hand experiences as Tech Leads and provide practical tools for you to master your role as a Tech Lead.
Sarah Stemmler
Sarah is an experienced Consultant, Coach and former Data Scientist. She loves to guide Tech Professionals to progress in their career. In this Masterclass, Sarah organizes and facilitates the interactive workshops and will be responsible to create an unique learning experience for each participant.
Experts for Tech Leadership
Anemari Fiser
Anemari is Trainer and Coach and former Tech Lead at ThoughtWorks. As a certified Coach she trained more than 100 Tech Leads on building high performing teams. Anemari has broad industry expertise through different roles as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Consultant and Product Director from which she will bring her personal learnings to the Masterclass.
Wolfgang Gassler
Wolfgang worked as Engineering Manager at trivago. He is a highly experienced leader with a robust tech background, a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a 25-year industry track record. Wolfgang is experienced in leading cross-functional teams of more than 25 members. He likes to share his expertise as a podcast host (Engineering Kiosk) as well as with you in this Masterclass.
Schedule a free demo 📞
If you want more details about the Masterclass, book a free call with Sarah. She will guide you through the curriculum, explain you our teaching approach and answer all your questions.
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