About us
We are a community of longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Our mission is to help each other learn through conversation and sharing of ideas.
We host monthly in-person events on the first Tuesday of each month.
Leadership is a learnable skill, however learning about leadership in the technology industry is often left to chance. This often leads to frustration for both leaders and those being led.
Many technology leaders get the job by default. They are the best or most senior technologist and suddenly find themselves leading meetings, negotiating for resources, making strategic decisions, participating in hiring, and a whole range of other mission-critical activities that fall outside of the technical toolbox. The world of leading / managing talented technologists can be messy.
We have many leaders practicing different leadership / management approaches from various companies around us. We can all learn from each other by coming together and sharing our experiences.
We aim to create an open community of people managers and technology leaders to exchange regularly about managing teams, solving difficult organisational topics, discovering new ways of working with the people we are allowed to mentor and all other aspects.
Just like in the core of tech, managing people and teams is never "done" and there is always new things to learn, impulses to follow, old practices to discard or revive. This is the place to help each other and move forward, become more professional and grow for ourselves and for the people and organisations we lead.
The hypothesis being that sharing our experiences will grow us into better leaders which over the long term will make the technology industry a better place for everyone.
Thank you to our sponsors - OfferZen
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OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.
Upcoming events
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Tech Leadership Meetup with Paco Mendes (Engineering Leader)
27 Kotzee Road, 27 Kotzee Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa, Cape Town, WC, ZAJoin us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup.
There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.
The event will be hosted at the KRS offices (Unit 302, Building 20, Waverley Business Park, 27 Kotzee Road, Observatory, 7925)
The agenda for the evening will be as follows:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and snacks.
18:00 - 18:05 - Introduction and house rules.
18:05 - 19:00 - Main speaker - Paco Mendes.
19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap up.Topic of Main Talk - Honoring your values in a time of abundance
It has never been easier to generate more. More ideas, more code, more features, more content, more answers... Yet most leaders and organisations are unable to answer whether this abundance is producing substantially more value for their businesses, customers, teams and personal lives. We're living through a magical and disorientating moment. This talk aims to zoom out and consider the product delivery system as a whole, the consequences of this abundance and how to reason about your core values as you lead yourself and your teams through this period of turbulence.
Paco has operated in various leadership roles and at the frontlines of global startups, scale-ups and big tech, including at companies like Apple, Hotjar and more recently leading software engineering at MTN. Like many engineering leaders navigating this madness, he's taken an extended break to reflect, recharge, regroup and prepare for what's next.
Thank you to our sponsors OfferZen
OfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an online job marketplace by developers for developers. Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software. That’s why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.---
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