Tech Leadership Newsletter - Issue #5
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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.
How to fix a terrible on-call system | LeadDev — leaddev.com Less time on-call isn’t always better
What Good Leaders Do When Replacing Bad Leaders — hbr.org Three actions to help your team move on.
Managers are Makers Too — www.inkommon.com Paul Graham's article doesn't just help managers lead makers. It has valuable clues for when managers can use a maker's schedule to better perform their own role.
The complaint department never closes - by Suzan Bond - observations and annotations — observationsandannotations.substack.com When you take on more responsibility
Seniorless — 4 Tips for Effectively Onboarding Juniors | by Gabriel Grinberg | Medium — medium.com The previous post — “Seniorless — 5 Reasons You Should Hire More Juniors” was about why juniors are a great, and even essential, assets to your engineering group. Of course, hiring non-experienced…
Software Engineering Leadership is not (Only) About Coding Well | by Guy Gadon | Medium — gadon.medium.com Software Engineers tend to think that being a successful engineer means being an awesome coding machine. It’s true that with the ability to code, you’ll be able to get things done and move quite…
Five Slides Technical Leaders Should Show at Board Meetings - Jellyfish — jellyfish.co How do you update your board on the engineering team’s progress? You know what and how teams are doing, but presenting these topics to the board in a way they really understand can be challenging. Try these slide suggestions to help get you started.
Remote Team Retros - How to Run Them Effectively | Status Hero — statushero.com Learn to run an engaging retrospective while working remotely
The Dark Side Of OKRs (And Why We Should Care) — corporate-rebels.com If we could tag one apocalyptic rider for adaptive organizations, it would be "traditional performance management." It is old-fashioned performance management that keeps us in a world of humans as resources, as command-and-control takers, with rigid top-down planning, and solid prevention
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