In this episode you can hear Ron Lichty and Andrei talk about:
Inspired leadership, or how leaders can share their vulnerabilities in story form, showing your human side to achieve success and why building a community of developers pays off.
Some value points you can expect:
- A culture of sharing pays off
- Situational leadership and how it can help you delegate correctly
- Why it’s important to apologize when you do wrong by others
- Getting promoted into management increases the learning load, not decreases it
- The managers job is to be an enabler and an empowerer to his people
- How agile came about
- Software development is a team sport and needs to be treated as such.
- Managers must ferment and foster psychological safety
- Self organizing teams are formed by people who assume leadership responsibilities inside the team regardless of experience
- Good programming teams work much like a good Jazz group
- Sharing is caring, and it’s a managers job to prove it to his team.
Book Recommendations:
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility
Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture
Ron is the author of:
Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
Programming the 65816: Including the 6502, 65C02, and 65802
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