Leadership

Last Updated: 2021-12-10

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Tech Lead - responsible for

• leading a dev team
• quality of deliverables

	Urgent	Less Urgent
Important	Do	Decide
Less Important	Delegate	Delte

Notes from Books and Videos

Video: You're The Tech Lead! Now What?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muls9BogsVQ&t=458s

• Facilitate: help your team do their jobs
  • remove roadblocks
  • perceive the need
• Advocate: keep the big picture in mind
  • say NO to feature creep
• Motivate: guide your team to the best possible result
  • sent the tone for the team, do not panic

Tactics:

• use tickets, hours, burdowns
• write down everything (and send recap emails)
• passive-aggressive whiteboarding (go through the design on whiteboard with the engineer and ask questions (answers you may already know))

Radical Condor

The book gives a simple framework based on 2 dimensions: Care Personally and Challenge Directly:

• Ruinous empathy: high on Care Personally and low on Challenge Directly
• Obnoxious aggression: low on Care Personally and high on Challenge Directly
• Manipulative insincerity: low on both dimensions
• Radical candor: high on both dimensions

Debugging Teams: Better Productivity Through Collaboration

• Software engineering is a team sport
• Leadership is about removing roadblocks, not giving orders
• Professional social skills are at least as critical as technical skills: Humility, Respect, Trust.