Tech lead tips

Tech Lead TipsRouan Wilsenach@rouanw

Tech lead tips

● Being the person who cares● Helping the flow of work● Ready for change● Being a leader● The 80/20 rule● Being a little meta

Being the person who cares

Caring

Back to first principles

Helping the flow of work

Flow

1 dev, 1 customer

Flow

Technical advisor

Flow

Planning

Flow

Looking ahead

Flow

Splitting stories

Flow

Technical Spikes

Flow

Look for patterns and bottlenecks

Flow

Cross-role involvement

Ready for change

Change

Last responsible moment

Change

Automated tests

Change

Make coding easier

Change

Emergent design and refactoring practices

Change

Simplicity

Technical Debt

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html

Change

Code review

Change

Knowledge sharing

“data showed an overall increase in velocity when tasks were consistently assigned to the least qualified person”

http://user.it.uu.se/~carle/softcraft/notes/PromiscuousPairing.pdf

Change

Clear the road to production

Change

Using data to know what to change

Being a leader

Leading

Autonomous team with shared principles

Leading

Strong opinions, loosely held

Leading

Dealing with ambiguity

Leading

Aim to be redundant

Leading

Knowing your team

Leading

Have the tough conversations

Leading

Managing disagreement

Leading

Fun team

The 80 / 20 rule

“roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the

causes”

- Pareto principle

80 / 20

Uphold & extend

80 / 20

Delegation vs building individuals

Being a little meta

Being meta

Bigger picture

Being meta

Plug into the tech community

Being meta

Observant

Being meta

Guide your team

Being meta

Eavesdrop