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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. Load-balance work among the team. Knowledge: “A strong tech lead’s knowledge is broad and deep…A tech lead should be a master of several technologies.” ” Activities. .”

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. Bugs – no big deal.

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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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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

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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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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. The same mindset should also be applied to architecture; involve the whole team and challenge the small details. No generic technical patterns can help you to define the right boundaries and interaction patterns.

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High-Touch Leadership in Buffer’s Fully Remote Culture

Gitprime

GitPrime elevates engineering leadership with objective data. In this interview series, Engineering Leaders talk about how to build high performing teams. But the same principles apply whether your team has an office or you’re scattered around the world. Two (equal) leadership paths. The problem isn’t promotions.

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