Posts Tagged "Team Culture"

What Nobody Tells You About Leading Engineering Teams

What I've read this week all point to the same, somewhat unglamorous, truth: leading an engineering team well has very little to do with technical brilliance and almost everything to do with the daily discipline of decisions, honesty and attention. [[real example needed: a specific moment from Stephen's own leadership experience — a decision he made as VP Engineering that rippled onto his team, a management archetype he recognises in himself, or a postmortem where the team asked "what are we changing" rather than "why did this happen"]] Eight pieces came through the inbox this week that, between them, map out what that discipline actually looks like in practice.