Discover the true value of developer relations as you learn to build and maintain positive relationships with your developer community. Use the principles laid out in this book to walk through your company goals and discover how you can formulate a plan tailored to your specific needs. Understand why Developer Advocates (and Developer Relations teams) are just like avocados -- the good kind of fat. First you will understand the value of a technical community: why you need to foster a community and how to do it. Then you will learn how to be involved in community building on a daily basis: finding the right audience, walking the tightrops between representing the company and building a personal brand, in-person events, and more. Featuring interviews with Developer Relations professionals from successful companies, including Red Hat, Google, Chef Docker, Mozilla, SparkPost, Heroku, Twilio, and CoreOS, and with a foreword by Jono Bacon, "The business value of developer relations" is the perfect book for anyone who is working in the tech industry and wants to understand where DevRel is now and how to get involved. Don't get left behind-- Join the community today.

Increasingly, business leaders are either looking to start a new developer program at their company or looking to increase the impact of their existing DevRel program. In this context, software developers are finally recognized as legitimate decision makers in the technology buying process, regardless of the size of their organization. New companies are appearing with the sole purpose of making tools for developers, and even companies whose primary focus was elsewhere are waking up to the developer opportunity. Even as the need and demand for DevRel has grown, there are still re-occurring challenges for DevRel leaders. It is these challenges that this book addresses, covering all aspects of a DevRel program. It is an essential reference to professionalize the practice of developer relations by providing you with strategic, repeatable, and adoptable frameworks, processes, and tools, including developer segmentation and personas, and developer experience frameworks. In Developer Relations, you’ll find the answers to the following questions: How do we convince stakeholders to support a program? How do we go about creating a program? How do we make developers aware of our offer? How do we stand out from the crowd? How do we get developers to use our products? How do we ensure developers are successful using our products? How do we measure success? How do we maintain the support of our stakeholders? After reading this book you’ll have a clear definition of what developer relations is, the type of companies that engage in DevRel, and the scope and business models involved. What You Will Learn Discover what developer relations is and how it contributes to a company’s success Launch a DevRel program Operate a successful program Measure the success of your program Manage stakeholders Who This Book Is For Those interested in starting a new developer program or looking to increase the impact of their existing one. From executives to investors, from marketing professionals to engineers, all will find this book useful to realize the impact of developer relations.

Discover the true value of Developer Relations as you learn to build and maintain positive relationships with your developer community. Use the principles laid out in this book to walk through your company goals and discover how you can formulate a plan tailored to your specific needs. First you will understand the value of a technical community: why you need to foster a community and how to do it. Then you will learn how to be involved in community building on a daily basis: finding the right audience, walking the tightrope between representing the company and building a personal brand, in-person events, and more. Featuring interviews with Developer Relations professionals from many successful companies including Red Hat, Google, Chef, Docker, Mozilla, SparkPost, Heroku, Twilio, CoreOS, and more, and with a foreword by Jono Bacon, The Business Value of Developer Relations is the perfect book for anyone who is working in the tech industry and wants to understand where DevRel is now and how to get involved. Don’t get left behind – join the community today. What You’ll Learn Define community and sell community to your company Find, build, and engage with the community Determine how and when to hire community managers Build your own personal brand Who This Book Is For Any business leaders/owners/stakeholders in the tech industry, tech evangelists, community managers or developer advocates.

Developers sniff out anything that seems like marketing. Typical tactics will fall flat. And you'll be staring at your analytics with questions they can't possibly answer. Most developers are too skeptical to fill out lead forms or provide their real email address.To reach a technical audience, you must acknowledge that developer marketing does not exist. Then you can authentically engage with developers.Adam DuVander has worked with dozens of developer-focused companies to attract thousands of the right developers. In Developer Marketing Does Not Exist he helps you uncover the mystery within your audience so you can reach more developers.

In The Software Craftsman, Sandro Mancuso explains what craftsmanship means to the developer and his or her organization, and shows how to live it every day in your real-world development environment. Mancuso shows how software craftsmanship fits with and helps students improve upon best-practice technical disciplines such as agile and lean, taking all development projects to the next level. Readers will learn how to change the disastrous perception that software developers are the same as factory workers, and that software projects can be run like factories.

Based on open source principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration, "open management" challenges conventional business ideas about what companies are, how they run, and how they make money. This book provides the blueprint for putting it into practice in your own firm. He covers challenges that have been missing from the conversation to date, among them: how to scale engagement; how to have healthy debates that net progress; and how to attract and keep the "Social Generation" of workers. Through a mix of vibrant stories, candid lessons, and tested processes, Whitehurst shows how Red Hat has blown the traditional operating model to pieces by emerging out of a pure bottom up culture and learning how to execute it at scale. And he explains what other companies are, and need to be doing to bring this open style into all facets of the organization.

NEW 3rd Edition - September 2020 This is the third edition of the book that has earned 14 5-star reviews. It's now bigger,richer and better. Your walk-through guide to Developer Marketing and Relations now has 9 new chapters since the first edition + 1 more reviewed chapter. Build your DevRel dream team and project. Learn from success and failure stories. Welcome to the third edition of "Developer Marketing and Relations: The Essential Guide". The history starts in October 2017, during the Future Developer Summit. There, Andreas Constantinou and Nicolas Sauvage fully recognized the fragmented nature of developer relations or DevRel - from the types of companies, the products they represented, and the knowledge of the practitioners. It was there we witnessed that the best practices were often locked behind the doors of the companies that mastered them. We knew we wanted develop an essential guide to share this knowledge with a broader audience of developer relations, evangelists & advocates, developer marketing practitioners and beyond. As we have watched the practice of DevRel grow and evolve over the last three years, there is a continued need for education of what DevRel is, along with the strategy and tactics needed for a successful program. The good news is, many of the leading practitioners from the best companies agreed to share their knowledge, stories, learnings, and best practices in this guide! We think you'll find the information insightful, whether you are a seasoned professional in developer relations or you are just getting started. A question we often get asked is: "Can you help us understand how Mozilla, Google, or Microsoft practice developer marketing?" (replace names with your favorite tech brands). That's exactly what this book aims to accomplish. This guide is arranged in an order that takes you from strategic issues to more tactical issues. You can read from start to finish, or jump into the chapter that focuses on what you need to know right now. At a strategic level, you may want to read "Using Developer Personas to Stay Customer-Obsessed" from Cliff Simpkins of Microsoft, or if you are building out a program you might try "Structuring Developer Relations", by Dirk Primbs of Google. If you are just starting out, be sure to read, "Starting from Scratch: How to Build a Developer Marketing Program", by Luke Kilpatrick of Nutanix. If you need to get many stakeholders together in a large organization, the "The Developer Relations Council: Leading and Aligning Developer Marketing within Large Companies" by Arabella David of Salesforce - a new chapter for the third edition- is a must. Then, learn how to understand numbers and KPIs in our new chapter "Measuring the success of a developer communications strategy" by our very own Rich Muir of SlashData. As mentioned, developer programs exist in many types, as different companies are marketing different types of products to developers. Ana Schafer and Christine Jorgensen of Qualcomm describe their experiences with communities around hardware in "Hardware Is the New Software - Building A Developer Community Around A Chip Instead Of An SDK". APIs are well known as a key product in DevRel so we are pleased to bring you a new chapter by Mehdi Medjaoui, founder of APIdays conferences "Developer Relations and APIs". We can't list all of the great chapters here, but we would be remiss if we didn't point out the chapters on community, the heart and soul of any leading developer relations program. Be sure to read "The Power Of Community" by Jacob Lehrbaum of Salesforce, and the new chapter "Building an Inclusive Developer Community" by Leandro Margulis, based on his days at TomTom. Andreas Constantinou, Founder & CEO, SlashData Nicolas Sauvage, President & Managing Director, TDK Ventures Caroline Lewko & Dana Fujikawa, Editors of the third edition, WIP