How much direct supervision is micromanagement?
Managers' fear of being micromanagers can result in them not supervising their teams.
Leadership
Developing leadership skills, managing multiple teams, and aligning with company goals.
Unblocking group decisions
The internet is full of articles telling you why you should avoid paralysis by
decision. Companies obsess on this problem and create core values such as "bias
towards action" to battle it.
But
The 3 mindsets required to consistently improve software engineering team velocity
As a VP of Engineering, I work with 30+ software engineering teams, and from
time to time, we work in troubleshooting their velocity problems. I've recently
written about why most attempts to improve
The reason why most attempts to increase velocity fail (and how to fix it)
Improving a development team's velocity is no easy task for a leader.
In 2015, I led a team that was taking a long time to build new features, but it
was tough to