Building your DevRel dream team
Let's take a look into knowing the key elements required to make a "DevRel dream team".
Summary
Understanding the key roles of DevRel team
What each and every key role does
One of them is the facilitator
Community managers and organizers are often involved in outreach and community events alongside evangelists, both online and offline.
Evangelists are involved in the community events, however, they need to be very familiar with the product being the first point of contact for new developers and businesses.
They (evangelists) also are responsible for getting back to the community with answers from the product teams.
Developer educators, or facilitators end up working mostly online and behind the scenes for the event, offline interactions and technical workshops are their forte'.
Seeing how to structure the DevRel teams as well as knowing how each role fits into core pillars of developer relations is important.
Building a team around those ⬆️ helps in setting the right metrics for each team.
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Key roles of DevRel team
The Evangelist
The Facilitator/ Educator
The Organiser
Those ⬆️ key elements will make sure you have the right mix to pull off great DevRel adventures.
If you are starting out as the sole DevRel, then you might need to fill that very spot yourself.
Once you are expanding, you will have to find out great people to fill in your weak spots.
Evangelist
Person who will stand on the stage and preach to the thousands of developers.
Attends various conferences and meetups to share info about the product
Collecting feedbacks
Showing off the killer presentation with a pinch of memes
Educator/Facilitator
Provides the support/acts as a backbone for developers
Documentation
Quick start guides
Running technical training events
Speaking at workshops
Helps in making complex topics digestible
Organizer
Community folks who bring developers together
Fuel to the community
Helps in maintaining peace and prosperity in the community
Making sure any issues raised are sorted out ASAP
Having the right mix of people always helps brings a balance to the team
Leads to kinds of activities that the developer relations often participates in
Outreach
Community
Product
Education and Support
The real key to building a great team is finding people who understand one another. It might go too far to say that this is the golden ratio of building the ultimate dev rel team but it’s a place to start.
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