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…
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…
There is a difference. All-Around means you are here, there, and everywhere. It looks like you are participating, but really you are just “there”. All-In means you are not here, there, or everywhere. It means you are where you need to be, where your team needs to be and you’re ready to perform your role to help your team succeed. We think “All-Around” is All-In because we’re doing lots of “stuff” when actually what we’re…
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…
Here are some articles on Software Development Leadership this past year that resonated with people this past year. I’m looking forward to writing more in 2022. What Successful Software Architects Do What Makes a Great Technical Lead 5 Metrics of Software Leadership Team Leads vs Software Managers The Software Manager Minimum