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
It doesn’t matter where you start per se, what does matter is that you start. That’s what your team needs you to do is start. Along the way you’ll figure out if it’s wrong or right, but today, what they need is for you to start.