Tech Leadership

This page is my notes on tech leadership.

How to Lead a Project

This section is based on the blog post How to Lead a Project.

General Advice

Framework for Collaboration

• Make a list of stakeholders for the project
• Schedule a kick-off meeting with all relevant stakeholders
• Setup and maintain the documentation for the project
• Setup and manage the collaboration channels for the team - e.g., Jira, Slack, etc.
• Follow an established project management methodology

Manage Risks

• Understand all parts of the project at a high level
• Build a library of knowledge
• Call out risks as soon as they arise

Communicate Status to Stakeholders

• Keep the team and internal stakeholders updated
• Keep status tracking documents up to date
• Identify any other stakeholders who need to be aware of the project

Help the Team Focus

• Help engineers focus
• Delegate

Motivate the Team

• Take pride in the work
• Celebrate the finish

First-Time Framework

Project Setup

• Lead a kickoff meeting
• Break down milestones
• Follow the RFC planning process

Regularity

• Weekly update emails
• Daily standup with agenda and notes
• Set weekly team goals
• Demo progress (bi)weekly
• Do a retrospective