leadership

Lean methodologies, DevOps, small cycles, CI/CD, no overtime, freedom, quality, culture, sustainable work… cool stuff. A lot of people talk about them in positive terms but Nicole Forsgrem, Jez Humble and Gene Kim decided to go one step further: demonstrate that these things work.

Sarah Drasner wrote this marvelous book about technical team manager role.

It is a fact that most of us started leading by accident. We studied to be the best technicians and, suddenly, one day we find ourselves leading a team. And no one probably has ever told us about people, communication and so many other things necessary to do it well. If this is your case, read Sarah’s book. If it is not, if you are not a manager, even if you never want to be a manager… read it anyway. We should all know what a good manager does.