Tech Leadership Newsletter - Issue #46
Enjoy our best technology leadership findings for the month.
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The Tech Leadership newsletter is released monthly by the Tech Leadership team. The content is curated and ideal for longtime, new, and aspiring technology leaders. Our mission is to help each other learn through sharing of ideas.
Enjoy our best technology leadership findings for the month.
The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers
Developers are increasingly relying on AI coding assistants to accelerate our daily workflows. These tools can autocomplete functions, suggest bug fixes, and even generate entire modules or MVPs. Yet, as many of us have learned, the quality of the AI’s output depends largely on the quality of the prompt you provide.
10 Culture Builders Every Leader Should Master
Culture isn’t a buzzword. It’s not a poster in the break room or a slide in your onboarding deck. Culture is the lived experience of your team—shaped more by what you do than what you say. And as a leader, you are shaping culture whether you mean to or not.
Make 1:1s matter
A big topic of debate among engineering managers is whether or not to have 1:1s with their engineers. Some embrace the stereotypical introversion of engineers and avoid 1:1s out of respect for their nature, while others strongly believe in the importance of regular 1:1s.
Why People Really Quit — And How Great Managers Make Them Want to Stay
You may have heard the saying: people don’t leave their jobs, they leave their managers. More specifically, they leave micromanagers and absentee managers.
Lean Software Development: Quality through Collaboration and Visibility
An essential part of quality, often underestimated, doesn’t lie in the code or the tools, but in how we work together. In Lean Software Development, errors are not just seen as technical failures, but also as failures in understanding. Many of the defects that reach production aren’t due to poorly written code, but because the code doesn’t solve the right problem, or doesn’t do so in the right way.
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