Developer Career Masterplan

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Be a Leader: Manage Up, Down, and Across Your Organization

To be a leader and a top-level developer, you need to understand leadership and be able to deal with your team and your managers. Having the skills to manage up – talking and negotiating with your boss, other managers, and executive directors; to manage down – inspiring your team and peers; and to manage across – reaching out to people inside and outside of your organization, will allow you to lead and have a larger impact inside your team and company, and also outside, in your communities.

In this chapter, you will learn how to be a leader. Even if you don’t have a leadership role, you will learn how to lead by serving and helping, listening and asking questions, inspiring people ...