About me

Short link to this page: https://git.io/teamlead

More about me here.

I’d be glad to give lectures in your company or mentor you or your team leaders.

My telegram is @vitaly19842, twitter vsharovatov1; feel free to text me there.

The playlist of all my talks is on youtube.

I work for Qase. We promote TestOps philosophy and help companies manage quality. I also post on Quality in Qase twitter, do follow! :)

Everything on team leadership

All the documents are “live”, I try to update them whenever I find time or inspiration.

I’m slowly translating all the posts to English too.

Pull requests and discussions are always welcome.

Employee lifecycle: hiring, growth and development

• employee lifecycle — from searching for a job to leaving it (translations: :ru: Russian)
• what to ask a company during or before the interview (translations: :ru: Russian)
• словарь рекрутера
• FAQ рекрутера
• примитив роста и развития

Work ethics and culture

• happy developers are more productive
• counter-intuitive management concepts (translations: :ru: Russian)
• rational improvements culture (translations: :ru: Russian)
• накопление знаний
• менторство
• публичность и прозрачность
• рациональность и инновации
• все ребята хороши: рост или не рост?

:heart_eyes: Quality series

• Information loss
• Issues with processes
• Time pressure
• Knowledge overlap
• Team size
• Management complexity
• Emotions and interest
• Turnover
• Performance reviews
• Dogfooding and problem-solving
• Mental sets
• Agile product development benefits
• 12 tips for improving software testing in teams
• Hiring quality — CVs
• QA, QC and Quality
• Software quality: the generalist vs the specialist
• Turnover effect on quality
• Mob programming
• Ergonomics of a remote workplace

Process rationalisation

• ‘code review’ review — history and effectiveness (translations: :ru: Russian)
• Preparing developer’s firing starts on her first day (translations: :ru: Russian)
• Regular 1-1s aren’t as useful as people think (translations: :ru: Russian)
• Estimations aren’t rational (translations: :ru: Russian)
• How to grow your manager to support autotests
• github effect — how writing benefits me (translations: :ru: Russian)
• кружок качества
• правовые нюансы увольнения
• PDR — process decision record

Courses, trainings, seminars

• школа кадрового резерва в АМТЕХ
• ‘Speaking club’ — public speaking training (translations: :ru: Russian)

Recommendations

• :books:Books to read
• Talks to watch
• Telegram channels

Minor things

• .vimrc — my vim config