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Development team lead
Moving from developer to team lead changes the job more than people expect: you write less code and build more conditions. Architecture, quality, growing your teammates, holding delivery commitments.
Building the conditions for others' work
The day splits across three responsibilities. Technical: settling an architecture, arbitrating debt, guaranteeing that what ships holds up. Human: supporting a teammate, running a demanding and generous review, hiring. Commitment: breaking down a request, estimating honestly, holding a date or warning early. The most decisive skill is the last — saying in time what will not be ready beats discovering it the night before.
- Settle an architecture and document the decision taken
- Run a demanding code review and help a teammate grow
- Break down, estimate and hold a delivery commitment
- Hire, onboard and organise the team's skill growth
Teams that are getting structured
- Software vendors and digital service platforms
- IT departments of banks and operators
- Digital services companies running client projects
- Startups moving from three to fifteen developers
- Distributed teams working for foreign principals
What the commitment represents
Training takes time, and that time can be counted. Here is how many months, how many taught hours, how many credits, and for what recognised level of responsibility. You can set these figures beside your professional calendar and decide with full knowledge, which is the only way to see a programme through.
- qualification level
- 6
- months of programme
- 12
- taught hours
- 800 h
- credits
- 80
- competency blocks
- 5
Manager and professional
Led by an instructor.
1 credit = 25 h of work, 10 of them taught.
Framework of the « Development Team Lead » qualification, code TP56.
The programme, exactly as filed
What you read here is the filed content, with no marketing rewrite. Each block carries its official title, its scope and its taught hours. It is the document a panel consults, the one an employer receives when funding, and the one the final certificate rests on.
| Competency block | What it covers | Taught hours |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and software quality | Architectural choices, technical debt, standards, review, testing, application security | 210 h |
| Steering delivery | Cadence, estimation, scope commitment, continuous integration, release | 200 h |
| Technical leadership | Allocation, skills growth, constructive review, technical hiring | 190 h |
| Business relations and trade-offs | Translating needs, cost-time-quality trade-offs, a reasoned refusal | 150 h |
| Managerial conduct | Protecting the team, reporting, deciding on incomplete information | 50 h |
From code to leading a team
The path to this occupation is chosen on facts: how long, how many hours with an instructor, how many recognised credits and what amount in Guinean francs. The table gathers them for every open option, in the order a candidate reviews them before filing an application.
| Programme | Duration | Credits | Taught hours | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science programme — Bac+3 level · Bachelor's degree | 3 years | 180 | 1800 h | 5 400 000 GNF per year |
| Management and Project Management programme — Bac+5 level · Master's degree | 2 years | 120 | 1200 h | 6 500 000 GNF per year |
Useful to know before you apply
Do I have to stop coding?
Practice is maintained, in reduced doses, because it preserves credibility and clear-sightedness on estimates. What changes is the split: time spent removing others' obstacles becomes the main activity, and that is what the qualification recognises.
What follows this level?
The chief technology officer, at level 7, carries technology strategy, structuring choices and budget. The enterprise architect, also at level 7, offers the other trajectory, centred on the coherence of the application estate.
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