The Problem with Tech Leads – teach them how to lead

Re:The Problem with Tech Leads – teach them how to lead by dfsegoat on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:57AM (#12660256)

I genuinely look forward to tech-specific leadership opinions, but the author lost me with the ham-handed attempt at humor in the opening paragraph.

"Don’t worry, leading engineers is just like writing code. Just like apples and oranges..."

and:

"You can’t write tests. An occasional survey is ok."

Seriously? If I can't show my new engineers how I expect tests to be written - who will? IMO being a technical lead is all about leading from the front, and by example - and that means everything from documentation to unit tests to architecture.

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Re:The Problem with Tech Leads – teach them how to lead by iAm25626 on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:01PM (#12662149)

"You can’t write tests. An occasional survey is ok."

This is how I interpreted it: We can't write test cases against a flesh and blood human being which tie into

"Then there is the latency. It takes weeks to discover if what you tried actually worked"

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