You can be the coach, the mentor, the manager, the leader, the guide – you can do it all. But the bigger your team gets, the bigger the need to fight that person that will help with that vision and help you be all those myriad of roles to your team. The best teams are not led by one person, they are led by a team, working together, moving in the same direction, focused on…
It doesn’t matter if it’s remote or in-person, what you need remains the same. Someone who knows the score – someone who knows where the work is in the development stream, what is coming up and what is on deck. The best people, use data to back the conversation – boards, reports, queries Someone to ask the tough questions – where are you at, are you stuck, do you need help, what’s taking extra time…
If you don’t know, now is the time to ask. This isn’t about team growth and development, this is about needs. What does your team NEED? Replacing aging hardware? Fixing the delivery process? Improving relations with the support team? Additional time to learn the domain and context? Growth is one thing, growth is important, but there are needs that exist, below the surface of growth, and if the needs are not attended to, growth will…
I’ve never been big on returns – probably because of everything it entails; Having the right receipts. Being online vs offline. Having the card that I bought it with. Knowing what was wrong with it. At the end of the day, all I want to happen is to give something back that was yours that I don’t want anymore (not because I’m trying to scam you, simply because it doesn’t fit or do what I…
If you haven’t, stop what you are doing and start thinking about this. Your team needs direction, they need purpose, they need to see the bigger picture in what will be for the upcoming year. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the company’s or the team’s goals. Giving your team a purpose gives them something to fall back on whenever they hit a fork or roadblock in what they are doing? I could hack this together…