Leadership & Teams Series
Leading engineers without leaving the code: priorities, trust, and the hard conversations.
8 parts
- 1
It's not a promotion. It's a role change.
The Trident Career Model by Patrick Kua has three tracks. Each track represents where people spend most of their time or energy.
- 2
Managing the two kinds of work
Blue Work and Red Work, the two modes David Marquet describes in Leadership is Language. Different mindsets, and different languages.
- 3
How to become a Senior Software Developer?
Real seniority goes beyond job titles. It's about impact, mentoring others, owning outcomes, and raising the bar for your entire team.
- 4
Team Lead? Tech Lead? What is leadership and what is not?
Leadership is action, not a title. It has nothing to do with management or hierarchy. What it really means and how anyone can lead.
- 5
Leadership starts within your own life and behaviour
As organizations grow, leaders must shift focus from customers to employees. Key principles for scaling leadership effectively.
- 6
How do you deal with people reluctant to change?
From my talk at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress: my experience with Extreme Programming and the benefits of embracing change.
- 7
Tuckman's Model to drive a team to high performance
Tuckman's five stages, and practical strategies for each one: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
- 8
Visibility is passive, signal is not
Working in the open lets people help while the work is still shapeable. The real skill is pushing the right signal to the right room.







