How to Manage a Technical Team by Doing Nothing

To paraphrase something I once read in Entrepreneur Magazine: "Leadership is tough. That’s because it feels unnatural.  You have to train yourself to overcome the innate responses that accompany regular social interaction and contend with the instinct to be liked while continually evaluating and providing feedback. You also have to fight the inclination to always be producing. That hard work likely got you this far, but once you take on more leadership reins, your job as a manager won’t resemble work as you know it. In fact, it may not resemble work at all."

It is important to ensure that your development team is doing what you want and is producing certain expectations, but it is also very important to do this while not micro-managing and while not making team members feel like they are just "working for the man".

In this session, Steve Lavigne; a technical lead, certified Drupal developer, and certified Scrum Master & Product Owner will discuss how you can acheive the outcomes you want from your team while actually doing nothing.

Some key take-aways from this talk will include:

• How to recognize if you are over-managing your team.
• How to stop micro-manging your team and start encouraging them to think for themselves.
• How to ensure your team can self-manage most situations.
• How to give your team the feeling of ownership over their own actions.
• How to get your team to build what you want without telling them how to build it.
• How to ensure you get the expectations you want without specifically laying them out; and
• How to make your team happier and more productive.