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The role of being technical in technical leadership

on YouTube 06m
Talkat Velocity 2017 · 2017-06-19..06-22· [engineering-leadership, career-development]

speaker

name:Camille Fournier
website:https://elidedbranches.com

resources

video:https://youtu.be/G25_RQqV4vE
slides:none on file

summary

Engineering leaders need three concrete skills: deep debugging that separates root causes (motivation, process, legacy code, product handoffs) when a team is slow, technical empathy that lets a manager give specific appreciation (call out clever bug fixes, explain why React or serverless excites the team), and sound judgment to prioritize fixes. A cited study links employee satisfaction to believing bosses are highly competent, so credibility and domain fluency matter more than doing day to day coding.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:12Debugging
  3. 2:25Empathy
  4. 3:16Alfred Spector

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