LeadDev Berlin 2022 James Samuel

"Discover practical strategies for effective team leadership, from metrics and data to communication and motivation, at LeadDev Berlin 2022 with James Samuel."

Key takeaways

Every day, consider whether your team members are happy with their work and are getting value from it.
Instead of relying solely on metrics, use both quantitative and qualitative data to understand your team’s performance.
As a manager, it’s crucial to get reliability metrics from your system and define what will happen when things go wrong.
You need to get data from key metrics, such as engagement, retention, and productivity, to understand your team’s behavior.
It’s essential to balance investing in reliability with new features development to ensure your system remains scalable.
Communication will break down without getting the right people together to work on the problem.
When defining SLOs, consider what will happen if they are not met, and prioritize the most critical features.
To lead with feasibility, start, tune, and refine.
Understand your team’s motivation, engagement, and satisfaction to improve retention and productivity.
Use frameworks like DORA to measure engineers’ productivity and overall team performance.
To lead with context, consider the following pillars: people, product, and operations.
Look at metrics like deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and system uptime to understand your team’s performance.
Focus on building a framework to understand your team’s process and identify areas for improvement.

LeadDev Berlin 2022 James Samuel

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