Coaching through Coding

Explore strategies for coaching and mentoring through everyday technical activities in this 33-minute conference talk. Learn how to leverage opportunities beyond traditional one-on-one conversations to support team members' career growth. Discover techniques for effective coaching during pair programming, code reviews, debugging sessions, and even non-coding tasks like estimating and creating architecture diagrams. Gain insights into the differences between mentorship and coaching, and understand how to foster a culture of continuous learning and development within your team. Presented by Mercedes Bernard, a Principal software engineer and engineering manager, this talk challenges the conventional view of mentorship and encourages developers to find coaching opportunities in unexpected places.

Intro
Coaching through coding
The 10x developer
Mentorship vs. Coaching
Pair programming
Navigating
Driving
Debugging
Code reviews
No-code technical tasks
Estimating
Architecture diagrams
Share joy in learning