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Effective Technical Leadership

NeverFriday

Some notes from the Effective Technical Leadership talk given by David Byttow. Attributes of an effective technical lead. Knowledge: “A strong tech lead’s knowledge is broad and deep…A tech lead should be a master of several technologies.” Review code in detail and provide useful feedback.

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Why Having a Tech Lead or Manager as Scrum Master is a Bad Idea

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. Servant Leadership: prioritizing the needs of the team and helping others to perform as highly as possible.

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Measuring and managing technical debt with DevOps

CircleCI

Every technical team in the software industry is familiar with technical debt. That is because every software team incurs technical debt along the way. This article answers some critical questions about technical debt. What is technical debt? In doing so, this team is incurring a technical “debt.”

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

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How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Leaders and managers both require skills that can be taught, and developing those employees from within the company can be the most timely and economically efficient way to do so. Setting expectations for leadership growth. Developing leaders from within the organization. Marcus: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast.