- Leadership in Tech
- Posts
- Delegation is an art, not a science
Delegation is an art, not a science
#79 – March 07, 2022
sponsor
Swarmia not only tracks your engineering metrics but also helps you make long-lasting improvements based on them. As a result, you’ll be able to spot process bottlenecks, set relevant targets, and get new features to market faster. Get started for free.
this week's favorite
Delegating important work isn’t as simple as assigning someone a ticket, or putting their name down for the “responsible party” on a RACI matrix. We want our teammates to be successful when they’re picking up bigger, visible projects, and this requires some planning and ongoing support from us as managers.
Many technical problems ultimately turn out to be people problems, and a lack of good documentation is no exception. Writing and maintaining documentation is a habit that needs to be encouraged and nurtured. The unfortunate truth is that no amount of tooling is going to help without a culture of documentation.
Storytelling isn’t just the domain of content creators, marketers or PR pros. The ability to tell stories that inform, persuade or inspire supercharges every part of company building.
Recently a candidate asked me, “What kind of projects do you all work on? Do you work on interesting problems?”
A few months ago I was asked to take charge of onboarding a new developer in my company.I made a list of topics to be included in the training program, set them in a spreadsheet, gathered all the guides and knowledge-shares I worked on for the team & company since I started working in this position, and created an A-Z training plan for my new mentee.
courses
This course aims to teach infosec and cybersecurity professionals the various red team techniques that can be used to attack and determine vulnerabilities in their organization’s security. This course is free and available on-demand. Start today and learn at your own pace.