Tech Lead Handbook
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    • Talent Matrix
  • Engineering
    • Pair Programming
    • DCI Framework
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    • Leadership Competencies
    • The Communication Pyramid
    • Anti Patterns
  • Prioritisation
    • Types of Decisions
    • Pros and Cons
    • Decision Matrix
  • Hiring
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    • Position Description
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  • Product
    • Working with Product Managers
    • Assumptions Mapping
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    • Practice vs Process
    • Nemawashi
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  • The How
  • Communicate the vision
  • Alignment
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  • Direction
  • Delegate & Monitor
  • Red Flags
  • Tips
  • Pitfalls
  1. Product

Decision Making

How to make efficient decisions on daily delivery workflow

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The What

How do we make quick and good decisions on the daily delivery process? Push the decision-making to the possible lowest level.

The How

Communicate the vision

  • Why we are here and what are we trying to achieve as a team? Get it super clear.

  • Focus more on the why and less on the what

  • Provide more context to the team which helps them make efficient decisions.

Alignment

  • Hard work in the right direction.

  • Catch up (sync / async) with your Product Manager regularly, repeatedly, and frequently.

  • Align the tech roadmap with the product roadmap‌.

Autonomy

  • Be more situational and give your direct reports more space to grow

  • Don’t be prescriptive unless you absolutely have to, and fix it as soon as possible.

Direction

  • Ensure the direction is correct, otherwise, all that hard work goes in a wrong direction

  • Regular catch up with your Product Manager and get the direction aligned

  • Have a tech roadmap and fit into the product roadmap

Delegate & Monitor

Regular check-ins, but how often? It depends on Task Relevant Maturity

  • Start small and slowly build the trust

  • Clear ownership

  • Clarify goals and success metrics

  • Proactive updates from direct reports are needed

  • Regular check-ins

  • At the end of the day, it is all your accountability

  • Have unnecessary meetings for small decisions. // Can you make it async?

  • Look for absolute broader consensus for small decisions‌. // Unnecessary.

  • Aim for perfect decisions. // Perfectionism is killing your team.

  • Think about ROI. How big the decision is and how much it cost to make that decision.

  • There is more than one way to make a decision. Voting is just one of them.

  • Escalate every decision ⇒ micro-management

  • Delegate without monitoring ⇒ unexpected failures

Red Flags

Tips

Use frameworks for the decision-making process, e.g.,

Pitfalls

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DACI
https://www.cnpatterns.org/organization-culture/decide-closest-to-the-action
Cloud Native Transformation Practical Patterns for Innovation
https://www.hostinger.com/blog/task-relevant-maturity