💯. As a lead I learned its not my job to be the smartest person in the room anymore. Its about enabling others to be their best. This meant I'm working on the super messy least sexy but extremely important foundational work, while more junior folks shine/glide bc of my pre-work.
💯. As a lead I learned its not my job to be the smartest person in the room anymore. Its about enabling others to be their best. This meant I'm working on the super messy least sexy but extremely important foundational work, while more junior folks shine/glide bc of my pre-work.
I know you've struggled with this too @bahmutov - remember our discussion about it on this day - a pre-vaccine socially distanced coffee date 😍💉🚫
Ofc, let's not forget about the HOURS of alignment and strategy work that also goes into being a lead. It's just like community organizing. Change and alliances are formed one person at a time.
@nomadtechie This is why I do all the build tooling and CI work for my small team : I'm the one with the experience to know what needs to be done and how to do it, but also it's the boring stuff that enables my juniors to focus on building features.
@nomadtechie Then at some point the knowledge that comes from laying all the foundation, ability to lift up other engineers, and soft skills developed navigating people becomes more important than any code you write.
@nomadtechie @ThePracticalDev This is so true. I'm lead also, and I fell and act exactly the same. I often define myself as an "enabler" of the work of my team. And the best performance indicator of my work is the way the team progress
