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How to Manage Developers


For marketing, design, and sales professionals: learn how to write technical specs, communicate your vision, and manage developers effectively.

What You'll Learn

Technical Specs

Use developer lingo to articulate unambiguous requirements, sketch data models, and design wireframes.

Recruitment

Tips and strategies to source, hire, and negotiate rates that yield the most code for your buck.

Management

Scale your engineering organization as a non-technical manager with these daily, weekly, and monthly processes.

Testimonials

This course was made for founders looking to hire developers and Ryan also stated that developers probably wouldn't find much use in it. Although I'm a developer, my end goal has started and always been "founder" so I found his lessons insightful for future use cases. In fact, I always thought about how hiring my first developer would go before I actually learned to code myself.

Shawn Hosea

This short course is a must-see for all non-tech founders who are looking to work with technical talent in the future. Taking this course has given me the chops to write a solid spec for my projects saving me unwanted frustration and misunderstanding with engineers. I can now confidently vet, manage and hire the right team for the right projects without any wasted resources!

Ryan Metz

Contents

Paradigm Shift

Introduction to managing developers
  • 6 mins
  • 331 MB
Preview
Developer terminology (29+ concepts)
  • 28 mins
  • 327 MB

Creating Technical Specs

Writing a technical spec
  • 35 mins
  • 971 MB
Data Modeling
  • 20 mins
  • 597 MB
Creating ERDs
  • 10 mins
  • 253 MB
[Bonus] 4 ERDs from real apps
    [Bonus] Data modeling examples
      Wireframing
      • 45 mins
      • 1.16 GB

      Recruitment

      Hiring developers
      • 24 mins
      • 599 MB
      Pricing and negotiations
      • 7 mins
      • 190 MB
      [Bonus] Contractor legal template

        Retention

        Managing, scaling, and retaining talent
        • 31 mins
        • 2.46 GB

        Next Steps

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