In our world there are two kinds of people: developers and managers. The people who don’t earn nearly enough money, given the incredible amount of mind-bending work they do all day, and the people who get way too much money for talking all day (and sending emails of course). Nevertheless, developers and managers - slightly irritated by each other’s presence and radically opposing life goals - need to work together productively, in order to satisfy someone known as “the customer”. Having been a “developer” for years, now I’ve become a “manager” myself. Instead of hating it, I’m slowly embracing it. I’m in a unique position to oversee and (partly) understand what’s going on. I’ll share with you everything I know that will be of vital importance to improve your relationship with any manager nearby. Trying to understand each other (including the omnipotent “customer”) will be key to your personal process of becoming the dev that’s worth their own weight in gold.

1. PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME
“DEVS VS MGRS”
Matthias Noback / @matthiasnoback

2. ! !

3. "
#
$
%
! !
&
'
(
)

4. ALIGNMENT

5. EMANCIPATION
1 GROUNDWORK

6. %!
! !!

7. *!
!
+
!

9. ,,,
-
%!

10. ♥/

11. 0
1
2
34
5

12. WORK ETHICS
67

14. ! !!
!

15. ?

16. 8

17. % % % % % % % % % % % %
! ! ! !
% % % % % % % % % % % % % %
% % % % % % % % % % % % %

19. !
* 9"

20. !♥
:

21. !:♥/

22. ♥!:

23. COLLABORATION
2 THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS

24. !
! ! !
!
! !

26. !
!

28. %!
!!
! ! ;

29. ))) <
<
<

30. !
=>
!
=
!
>

31. !

32. ! !!
!!

33. CONSTANTLY
DELIVER VALUE

34. !!
!
!
!

35. *DD

36. DDD

37. BDD

38. TDD

39. 10X

40. YOU’RE DOING IT
WRONG!!!

41. GREG YOUNG

42. "
" 9*

43. )))!!!

44. WORK EXPANDS SO AS TO FILL THE
TIME AVAILABLE FOR ITS COMPLETION
Parkinson’s Law

45. !!
!
!
!

46. !
=
!
> =>

47. !
=
!
? =?

48. <?php
@A
B

49. !
!

50. PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
3 YOUR PART IN THE PLAY

51. %!

52. !%

53. THINGS WILL ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS
Noback’s Assumption

54. !
C
>
D
E

55. !
* 9"
F
B
GH
I
J
K

56. : ♂
)
(

57. M

58. TAKING THINGS
SERIOUSLY
4 TRANSFORMATION

59. !! '
(
"
#
)

60. )

61. :::

62. N

63. 67

64. Thank you
@matthiasnoback