Who is Lead developer?
2 min readMay 4, 2020
Role In company and responsibilities
Who is the team leader
- A team leader is someone who provides guidance, instruction, direction, and leadership to a group of individuals
- A team that works together well and happily is a more efficient team since their union can bring out the best in them. Making a team work together requires a keen understanding of people.
- Delegating tasks to the right individual is an important management skill for team leaders in the software development industry as it allows them to be focused on the truly important aspects of the project.
- Autonomy is essential to build trust in employee engagement. In an Agile environment, leaders provide the team members with clear goals and let them find the best way to achieve them.
7 must-have skills
- Team builder
- Delegation
- Autonomy
- Motivation
- Coaching
- Problem-solving
- Integrity
Knowledge
- System architecture
- Coding best practices and standards
- Coding and delivery process
- Technology intelligence
Know-how-to-be
- Representing developer team to management and other teams
- Curious and innovative
- Dedicated to delivery
- Dedicated to quality
- Collaborating with Products and Business peoples
Responsibilities
- Architecture design
- Standards compliance: Code review, tooling
- Feature technical design
- Tasks breakdown and prioritization according to the sprint goal
- Sprint and roadmap progress follow-up
Day to day tasks
- Technology intelligence
- Code review and validation
- Sprint and tickets follow-up: Daily stand’ up
- Coding
- Mentoring and guidance to the team
Team Lead as Manager
- Regular (weekly) 1–1 touch bases
- Regular feedback on career growth, progression towards goals, areas for improvement, and praise as warranted
- Working with reports to identify areas for learning and helping them grow in these areas via project work
To sum up
Being a good team leader in software development is not just a matter of having charisma. It involves a set of skills and attributes that people acquire through experience. Having great leaders will definitely impact your software solution’s result.
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