How to scale yourself as a first-time leader
summary
Claim: first-time leaders can stop being the bottleneck by teaching people to own work and decisions. Practical moves: build test infrastructure to enable a move from prototype to service-oriented architecture, delegate research and let the team set their own deadlines, pair or mob program to close knowledge gaps. Measures: five-to-seven person team, initial solution in about eight weeks, quarterly post-mortem every quarter, twelve months to scale processes and two years to see the payoff — the team becomes autonomous and the approach works.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 5:32Build a Self-Sufficient Team
- 5:58Learn How To Trust Other People
- 8:36Lead by Influence and Not Authority
- 12:17Team Composition Matter
- 14:22Scaling People Issues
- 20:43Take Stock of Your To-Do List
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