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Leadership & Teams Series

Leading engineers without leaving the code: priorities, trust, and the hard conversations.

8 parts

  1. 1

    Responsibilities of a Tech Lead

    · 3 min

    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. 2

    Red Work vs Blue Work

    · 3 min

    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. 3

    The Path to Seniority in Software

    · 6 min

    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. 4

    The Beauty of Leadership

    · 4 min

    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. 5

    Great Leadership

    · 9 min

    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. 6

    How Do You Get Everyone on Board?

    · 5 min

    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. 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. 8

    Working With the Garage Door Open

    · 4 min

    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.

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