leadership
Inside Atlassian: stopping team dysfunction before it starts
This is not the story of a team that was obviously broken. On the surface, we looked like your typical, high-powered marketing team. Busy, ambitious, and fueled by constant pressure from crazy deadlines. We played nicely together, collaborating early and often. We respected each other. We liked each other. Collaboration, respect, a bit of office-appropriate […]
Teamwork is really f*cking hard – here’s how to make it better
Society loves to celebrate and glorify the individual – Jobs, Musk, Lebron James. We all do it. But individuals don’t accomplish monumental achievements on their own. Success is driven by teams. From sending a rover to Mars to decoding the human genome or building driverless cars, teams accomplish far more than any single person ever could. Take […]
When I grow up, I want to be… a development lead?
It’s not quite what I had in mind when growing up, but right now my role title tells me I am a team lead. In the course of my time in this role, I’ve learned that being a team lead is something my fellow developers are interested in doing someday, so I want to share about my experience. This is what I’ve learned in discovering what it means to be a team lead.