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Part III: Developer Roles Across the Organisation

Development is carried out by people in roles. Part III treats the junior developer and the apprenticeship problem, the senior, the tech lead and the engineering manager, the neighbours (architects, platform engineers and site reliability engineers), the roles that shift most (testers, product owners and designers), the public authority and the non-developer who builds.

Chapter 13 stages a debate on whether juniors will disappear.

Chapters in this part:

  • Chapter 13, The Junior Developer and the Apprenticeship Problem, treats the junior developer and the apprenticeship problem, and stages a debate (D3 Build, D4 Prove).
  • Chapter 14, The Senior Developer, Staff and Principal Engineer, treats the senior, staff and principal engineer (D2 Design, D4 Prove, D5 Steward).
  • Chapter 15, The Tech Lead and the Engineering Manager, treats the tech lead and the engineering manager (D1 Frame, D3 Build, D5 Steward).
  • Chapter 16, Architects, Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers, treats architects, platform engineers and site reliability engineers (D2 Design, D5 Steward).
  • Chapter 17, Testers, Quality Engineers, Product Owners and Designers, treats testers, quality engineers, product owners and designers (D1 Frame, D4 Prove).
  • Chapter 18, Developers in the Public Authority, treats developers in the public authority (D1 Frame, D2 Design, D5 Steward).
  • Chapter 19, Citizen Developers, Low-Code and the Non-Developer Who Builds, treats citizen developers, low-code and the non-developer who builds (D1 Frame, D3 Build, D5 Steward).

Functions in this part. Part III concerns different functions for each role, named in each chapter.

The thread from the series. The middle layer is that of AI Leader, Chapters 16 and 17; the security architect is that of The Transformed Security Architect; the apprenticeship problem is that of AI Threat, Chapter 14 and AI Operations, Chapter 26.

What you will learn in this part:

  • How the apprenticeship is rebuilt
  • What the senior does that AI does not make cheaper
  • How teams are led
  • Where role boundaries move
  • How citizen development is governed

Part IV turns to leading change and adoption.