Emily Thomas at LeadDev West Coast 2023
summary
New manager steps into a troubled Scala team and uses four concrete tactics to turn things around: connect (personal one‑on‑ones), gain technical respect (read architecture, ship a small automation — a GitHub workflow that fixed on‑call permissions), give critical feedback (many staff engineers report no critique since promotion), and trust and overshare (share leadership context and honor engineers’ estimates). Results: fewer bugs, steadier delivery and healthier team dynamics.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Mentoring staff plus engineers
- 1:48Managing perceived superiors
- 3:55Overcoming team dysfunction
- 6:26Empowering staff plus engineers
- 10:00Critical feedback for top engineers
- 12:11Building trust and decisions
- 13:39Success metrics and closing
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