How To Be A Tech Lead
How To Be A Tech Lead
A practical guide for new and experienced tech leads to increase their confidence, effectiveness, and impact
About the Book
Stepping up to be a tech lead is a small step into leadership, but it may be the most important step you ever take in your career. I want to help guide you through it.
Some of the things you'll learn from this short book include:
- Whether you should even take the plunge to tech lead
- What it means to get results through others, maybe for the first time in your life
- How to focus on the process of growth more than the results
- What the tech lead role is and what tech leads do
- Navigating hard conversations
- How to listen to your team skillfully as a tech lead
- Taking initiative and being accountable as a tech lead
- How to craft clear and compelling visions for the team
- How to track and adjust what the team is doing
- And more!
About the Author
Table of Contents
- About the Author
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Introduction
- Why I Wrote This Book
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We’re on a Journey, Tech Leads!
- A New Chapter in Your Career and Life
- Getting Results Through Others
- Should You Be a Tech Lead?
- Focus on the Process Not the Results
- From Here On, Let’s Get Practical
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What is the Tech Lead Role and Why Do We Need It?
- Popular Thinking on What a Tech Lead Is
- Some Organizations Have Formal Tech Lead Roles
- Informal Tech Leads
- Promoting Yourself to Tech Lead
- Why We Need Tech Leads
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What Do Tech Leads Do?
- You Will Be Communicating More–A Lot More
- You Will Be Taking a Broader View
- You Will Be Active, Not Passive
- Still a Deeply Technical Role
- The Tech Lead Role is Fluid
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Your Tech Lead Toolbox: The Five Pareto Capabilities
- Foundation: Navigating Hard Conversations
- Tech Leadership With the Five Pareto Capabilities
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Capability No. 1: Listening
- Maturing Your Skill as a Listener
- Listening Is Critical to Developing Your Tech Lead Influence
- Blockers to Skillful Listening
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Capability No. 2: A Bias for Action
- Stepping Into Leadership Moments
- Let’s Talk About Your Energy Level
- Maturing Your Bias for Action Capability
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Capability No. 3: Vision Crafting
- Creating Clear and Compelling Visions as a Tech Lead?
- Maturing Your Vision Crafting Capability
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Capability No. 4: Tracking + Adjusting
- Tracking the Team
- Making Adjustments
- Bringing Tracking and Adjusting Together
- Maturing in Your Tracking + Adjusting Capability
- Capability No. 5: Growth Mindset
- Wrapping Up
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For More
- More From the Author
- Other Recommendations
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Getting Help
- Why Should You Consider Coaching?
- What is the Tech Lead Coaching Network?
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