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On a much happier note – Yes. You can breathe a sign of relief at this blog entry – I have time to tell you about Episode 347 of the JavaPosse podcast. This was record at the Round-Up 2011, in Crested Butte, Colorado in February. This was the session that I hosted and shared, called Technical Leadership. Jim Hurne, Tomas Stechly, Brian Gray, Guy Pascal-Gascoigne and a few others.

You can go and listen to Episode 347 online at the iLounge or try this German podcast website if your enterprise net-nanny-state thingie at work blocks you. [Businesses should not block twitter any more. Give it up! Everyone is going to be carrying a slate by 2016 so they are going to lose you to social networking no matter what they think they are saving you from. Ah well!]

This session is about:-

• What is technical leadership?
• Motivating other developer
• Coaching
• Mentorship
• Brown paper bag sessions
• Google IO videos
• Virtual learning in groups
• What happens if everyone in your company is a senior developer? Huh? How do you technical lead that situation?
• Getting off my bum (or USA "Getting off your ass!") going to speak to junior engineers or new starters or new project starters
• How on earth do we build the next generation of great developers?
• Community leading
• Delegation of the technical lead position – rotation
• Organic "event stimuli" leadership versus linear "threat/reward" leadership
• Collaborating within teams
• Motivation – how to motivate developers and other team members
• Difference between a technical leader and a line manager
• Buffering between the development team, the team lead and senior management, stakeholders

Thanks Dick Wall, for delivering this #JPR11 session earlier to us, and Happy Birthday week!