Agile Class Week 11: Technical Leadership
This week, we talked about Technical Leadership. He started by defining leadership as "a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid of and support of others in accomplishing a task or goal". Next is the definition of technical leadership, "leadership principles & practices applied and mastered in a technical environment". How can someone be an effective Technical Leader?
Engaging with Business
People are at the center of all leadership efforts. Leaders cannot lead unless they understand the people they are leading. One way to look at leadership is that the function of a leader is to lead and guide people who will follow with the same values. An effective technical leader must be able to build relationships and create communities. We can define leadership as inspiring people and planning for the future with the motivating factors of relationship building and community service.
Engaging with Team
Nothing is worse than trying to get people on board with a cause that they don’t care about or making them participate in an event that they don’t want any part of. But engaged employees can be beneficial for a company. Engaged employees enjoy being part of a solution. They like to participate in events and volunteer with nonprofits. Employees who are engaged at work will be more than willing to help out when the company they work for pursues a noble cause.Delivery & Risk
Technical leader should know how to manage delivery and risk to identify and avoid the potential cost, schedule, and performance/technical risks to a system, to take a proactive and structured approach to manage negative outcomes, respond to them if they occur, and to identify potential opportunities that may be hidden in the situation.Architecture & Infrastructure
Technical leader assimilates the methods in the organization and ensures application of lessons learned and adjustment of the methods to the varying circumstances. Leaders nurture leadership at all organizational levels, encourage initiatives and harness all employees, not just the executive team, to fulfill the organization's goals.
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