Space for Growth
How to create space for your team to grow
The What
The biggest mindset change from an Individual Contributor role to a Leader role — How to grow your team.
The How
You should put growth into 2 dimensions, vertical growth is awesome, however, horizontal growth is critical for team happiness and retention.
Domains
Front end & BFF: web framework, user experience, browser support, JS/TS, etc
Backend: database, microservice, architecture, cache, search, etc
Data: data engineering, data wrangling, data science, data analysing, A/B testing, etc
DevOps: security, CI/CD, network, etc
Practice: dev experience, best practice, code quality, code review, delivery process, etc
…there are more…
Horizontal growth
Learn from others within / outside your domain
Better collaboration among domains make a smooth delivery pipeline
Knowledge sharing help build up a good team culture and avoid the single point of failure
Informal mentorship is very helpful
Vertical growth
Be clear about Engineering Levels: Associate, Mid-level, Senior, Staff, Senior Staff, etc
Delegated chat about career development
Always help your team grow
Separate the team into support & Innovation // It always falls over
A player leaves if there is no space to grow
Be inclusive. We are one team.
Semi durable squads & swap // trade short-term productivity to long-term growth
🕳 Pitfalls
You as a Tech Lead is always on the critical path
You as a Tech Lead is always on the critical path
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