Start at the simplest of building blocks. Ignore the symptoms, find the cause, and find the root cause. Being there. It won’t be the popular choice, it will be the needed choice. It’s not the easiest one to make, but it is the one that everyone needs.
I guarantee you will never go wrong if you lead with your team first. There might be struggles. There might be ups and downs. There might be days you shake your head and wonder why you are doing it. But you will never regret it. Ever.
But is it your job to know how it works? If the answer is no, then why are people asking you how it works? If the answer is yes, and you are responsible for it than how does this problem get resolved? You can’t hide in a sea of unknowns if you are supposed to know how it works – no amount of diagrams or technical jargon will keep the problem hidden.
Big deadlines, and big deliveries, no matter the level of planning you do, will always require some extra effort. There is no way around it, irrespective of the field you are in, that extra push always needs to happen. You hope for it to be a week, but then a week turns to 2 and then into a month. This is where your team needs your leadership, your guidance, and your experience to know when…
If it’s not organized, organize it. If the current code doesn’t work, fix it. If the words don’t fit, rewrite them. If the team is suffering, get them together, and figure it out. If you see the problem, jump in. You don’t have to have all the answers or the final solution. You do have to be willing to take that first leap to make the change happen. Otherwise, sit, complain, stew, grumble, sulk -…