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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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Tech Leadership books

Apiumhub

The transition to tech leadership is a huge challenge. Technical leadership is different. Leading a technical team demands more than just management skills, but also technical prowess, and the ability to navigate the tech world. Remember, that learning is key to success in any leadership position.

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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. I love pair programming and mobbing because every small decision is debated and challenged. Simon Brown taught me how to review architecture diagrams 10 years ago.

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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

Pair Programming, Behaviour Driven Development, Lean U/X, Example Mapping and many more). Facilitation: of all Scrum events, such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. So what about having a Tech Lead or Manager fill the role of ScrumMaster? On technical improvements or team improvements?

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How engineering managers can effectively support engineers, teams, and organizations

CircleCI

It is a mix of hands-on coding, technical leadership and decision making, process and project management, product oversight, people management, finding and hiring talent … the list goes on. But ultimately, the control I had over my domain was limited due to organizational issues – which led me to leave the company.

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The value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization

Xebia

Mostly, this is due to the fact, that modern Agile Architecture requires a broad skill set to be done right as a business function. An Enterprise Architect adds a different kind of value than a Tech Lead or Lead Engineer, who does architecture as well. In fact, nowadays, Architecture has shifted from a job title to a role.

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Collaboration and Notqmail with Amitai Schleier

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

On this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Amitai Schleier, discuss a new project Amitai is working on regarding reviving an old, but useful, open-source program called qmail. But you then used your technical leadership skills to wrangle some folks together and things are now moving.