Leading & growing software teams
2022-07-15 , Wicklow Hall 1

Software development is a team game.

As you progress through your career, you might end up in a leadership role, taking care of your own team, or even of multiple teams.

As a team lead, it’s up to you to establish a good working rhythm, set the right expectations, communicate up and down the chain of command and effectively help your team grow in both technical and non-technical terms.

As a team lead, you want to enable your team to reach its full potential.

The main goal of this talk is to provide pragmatic real-life examples, about how to achieve those things.


Software development is a team game.

As you progress through your career, you might end up in a leadership role, taking care of your own team, or even of multiple teams.

As a team lead, it’s up to you to establish a good working rhythm, set the right expectations, communicate up and down the chain of command and effectively help your team grow in both technical and non-technical terms.

As a team lead, you want to enable your team to reach its full potential.

The main goal of this talk is to provide pragmatic real-life examples, about how to achieve those things.

We are going to cover the following topics:

  1. What’s the role of a team lead?
  2. Managing expectations & responsibilities.
  3. Establishing a good work rhythm.
  4. Establishing a good form of communication.
  5. What does team growth look like?

This talk is the natural sequel of the following talks from previous EuroPythons:


Expected audience expertise: Domain:

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Expected audience expertise: Python:

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Abstract as a tweet:

In this talk, we'll explore pragmatic ways, in which you, as a team lead, can enable your team to reach its full potential.

Generalist. A multi-disciplinary problem solver & a technical team lead.

Currently leading & growing teams at HackSoft.

A programmer from ~10 years, studied Computer Science in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University.

Founder and CEO of HackSoft (Sofia based software company with main focus in Python, Django and Scala) and HackBulgaria (Programming courses, based in Sofia / Bulgaria with main focus of getting the students ready for their first job - either as an intern or a junior developer. Mainly focused in Python and Java)

Also doing a lot of teaching - Functional Programming classes (Racket / Haskell) @Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics , Programming with Python and Django @HackBulgaria.

GitHub - https://github.com/RadoRado/