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This event will be a double talk on Advent of Code with Peter Gillett and How to Move from Development into Leadership with Luke Stringer

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, Owen Building, Room Owen-1029. This is located on the 10th floor.

Agenda:

🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 Advent of Code (18:35ish)
👉 Do Repeat Yourself: How to move from Development into Leadership (after the previous talk)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the last talk)
👉 Advent of Code
Feel like you have far too much free time in December?

Don't code enough during your day job?
…then Advent of Code will be right up your street.
25 days of coding puzzles ranging from easy to mind-boggling.

Using C#, we'll go through some practical solving of a day-one puzzle and a more challenging mid-month puzzle.
A taster session ready to join ¼ million other developers on December 1st.

👉 Do Repeat Yourself: How to move from Development into Leadership
As a developer moving into a leadership role for the first time it can be can be tough, confusing, and at times overwhelming. This was certainly the case for me. I discovered that the principles I had once followed when building software were no longer effective as a leader. However, after a few years I can confidently say that becoming a leader is one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done. In this talk you will learn some of the ways to adapt your developer skillset to that of a tech lead, and I will share my observations in making these adjustments myself. We’ll look at how the problems you need to solve are suddenly very unfamiliar, with incentives that are often the reverse to what you’ve been used to. If you’ve had similar experiences or are considering a move into leadership yourself, this talk is for you. You will leave with an number of effective strategies for becoming a tech lead, while remaining kind to yourself and others.