DevRel Weekly - Issue 196 - Onboarding at a new role, community building tips, and more

Welcome! 👋

It's been a bit of a whirlwind these last few weeks and the days have gotten away from me -- how are we already more than halfway through July?! 😱 Things aren't slowing down for DevRel content though! There are just as many great resources this week as ever, despite many people being out on extended holidays.

Know of any links I've missed and should be including in the future? Be sure to let me know!

Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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p.s. I'm super excited to announce that I'm hiring a Developer Advocacy Manager at Camunda! Find out more about it below.

Tidbits 🕔

Community Building Tips

Quincy Larson is sharing his tips for community building based on years of building communities for Free Code Camp. These may seem fairly straightforward, but I often see new community builders skipping by these key relationship-building moments.

Metrics can Result in Strategy

How does analysing metrics help in strategy?
-It helps identify gaps in your current strategy. This you to know when you should improve or change it according to your objectives.
-It also gives you a way to learn member preferences, by checking when a strategy runs well.

-Glynk

Community is the Backbone

Community is the backbone of all of dev rel. Community is about building relationships with users and potential uses and helping them solve problems.

-Victor Fawole

Tangibles 🤓

My Six Months Strategy Plan for Building Up A Community

There are a number of different strategies for getting up and running at a new role. How you get to know the community, the stakeholders, the product, and the gaps is simultaneously a very personal thing and also something that can be standardized to a certain extent. If you're looking for a good foundation to build your own plan, Shruti Arora recently wrote up her 6 month strategy plan, and Tessa Mero shared how she's built her own plan based on the book The First 90 Days.

5 tips for writing better API documentation

Great API documentation is essential to a good developer experience. But what does that mean, and how do you get to a point where your documentation is considered "great"? Pam Goodrich has a few suggestions in this recent article.

Storytime 📚

Replayable - Desktop Instant Replay

Don't spend time trying to explain or reproduce bugs in your product. Capture them the first time with desktop instant replay. The Replayable desktop app records your screen in the background so you can embed instant replays in Jira, GitHub, Slack, and more. Join our beta today!

Storytime 📚

DevRel Podcasts and Videos

Community One Person Show and How to Get Sh#t Done with Scott Wilder - Peers over Beers
How to be a DevRel in 2022 with Emanuele Bartolesi - GitHub Stories
The Role of Community for Startup Success - The Spark (Twitter Space)
Enterprise Developer Advocacy with Maish Saidel-Keesing - Screaming in the Cloud

Events 📆

DevRel Events

It's pretty calm right now; hopefully you're taking some time to get away and unwind before things ramp up again. When you're ready, come back here and check out what's coming up next.

Jobs 👩‍💻

Now Hiring: Developer Advocacy Manager

Camunda is the leader in process orchestration software. Our software helps orchestrate complex business processes that span people, systems, and devices. With Camunda, business users collaborate with developers to model and automate end-to-end processes using BPMN-powered flowcharts that run with the speed, scale, and resiliency required to compete in today’s digital-first world.

As the Developer Advocacy Manager, you'll be the direct people manager for a team of 4 Developer Advocates, responsible for career growth, performance evaluations, setting of priorities, and overall strategic guidance. You'll also be responsible for strategic planning for the Developer Advocacy function, including quarterly OKRs and annual goals as well as documentation of team responsibilities, goals, and success metrics.

Jobs 👩‍💻

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