Test-Driven Leadership: Crafting Testable Strategies
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Proposes applying TDD to leadership by treating strategy as many small experiments with clear success metrics rather than a brittle three‑year waterfall plan. Uses a mobile case: five mobile engineers vs 200 web engineers, tests embedding mobile devs into squads (fails), then a consultative platform approach (succeeds), measures success by number of engineers contributing, runs increments over months, reports about 75% hit rate on experiments and proves a north‑star plus rapid test cycle works.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:08Traditional strategies fail
- 12:49What is TDD
- 17:03TDD for leadership
- 23:30Building social capital
- 32:35Engineering to leadership
- 37:08Tech techniques for leadership
- 40:39Q&A
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