{"id":26209,"date":"2018-10-23T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=26209"},"modified":"2018-10-23T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:00:58","slug":"what-mmorpgs-can-teach-us-about-leveling-up-a-heroic-developer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=26209","title":{"rendered":"What MMORPGs can teach us about leveling up a heroic developer team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/team-game-play-inclusive-diversity-collaboration.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" alt=\"plastic game pieces on a board\" title=\"plastic game pieces on a board\"><\/p>\n<p>For the better part of a decade, I have been leading guilds in massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPGs). Currently, I lead a guild in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guildwars2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guild Wars 2<\/a>, and before that, I led progression raid teams in <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofwarcraft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World of Warcraft<\/a>, while also maintaining a career as a software engineer. As I made the transition into software development, it became clear that the skills I gained in building successful raid groups translated well to building successful tech teams.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/18\/10\/what-mmorpgs-can-teach-us\">read more<\/a><br \/><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"24663-3514371590\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the better part of a decade, I have been leading guilds in massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPGs). Currently, I lead a guild in Guild Wars 2, and before that, I led progression raid teams in World of Warcraft, while also maintaining a career as a software engineer. As I made the transition into software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}