In this episode, Don joined Shahin to talk about Systems Thinking, Leadership Habits, and Organizational Change.
The following have been topics of our conversation:
Transitioning from technical skills to people management.
- The importance of people in software development, highlighting their creative force and impact on success and well-being.
- The importance of trusting and empowering knowledge workers, who are closer to the work than managers.
- Jerry Weinberg (author) highlighted the shift from Taylorism (structured tasks) to coaching (personal and process-related goals), with managers becoming more interested in people's educational and career goals.
Leadership development and problem-solving.
- The importance of adapting to change and the need for problem-solving leaders to observe and understand motivation, organization, and information.
Software development, leadership, and personal growth.
- The importance of developer satisfaction, citing the costly consequences of losing experienced developers.
- Find empathetic leadership insights through reading and self-reflection.
- Software development challenges, complexity as the primary issue.
- Agile methodology requires tailoring to individual contexts, rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach.
- Organization must be ready to start software development before investing time and money.
Leadership habits and systems thinking.
- Management prioritizes cost over readiness, despite worker demand for training and success.
- Coach helps team break habits and improve systems in leadership roles.
- The "core habits" for leaders, including sharing the vision, measuring actual delivery, and creating free informational flow.
Systems thinking, agile development, and team dynamics.
- Wardley maps visualize product evolution, highlighting reinforcing and balancing loops.
- The importance of understanding how personal and cultural factors impact decision-making in complex systems.
- Agreeing to try and visioning with team members led to successful product development.
Software development, leadership, and organizational change.
- Using organizational change management techniques to facilitate change within software development teams.
- The increasing presence of women in leadership positions in the tech industry
- The importance of happiness in software development.
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