Seven Tips to Be a Successful Tech Lead
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Loading... - Nicolau Araujo
- 12 Sep 2022
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What’s the difference between a tech lead and a team lead? Or a software engineering manager? What can help you be a successful tech lead? Every organization varies in size, structure, and how they define their job descriptions. In very small organizations, it’s possible for a single person to be the tech lead, team lead, engineering manager, and project manager. Many hats. Obviously, these roles and positions tend to be more distinct in larger organizations. Here, we are focused on tips for tech lead (or tech leaders).
Tech Lead vs Team Lead and Management Roles
Let’s simplify the major difference. Tech leads code, even if that’s not all they do. Team leads and software engineering managers should spend little if any time coding. Tech leads are mainly focused on the technical aspects of software development. Team leads and managers mainly focus on the people side of the equation. Again though, there can be a lot of overlap due to organization size and structure.
Tech leads require technical expertise and strong people skills. As with team leads and managers, the number one thing to guide your efforts is to help each member of your team be the best they can be. Of course, you want to improve your own skills, too – but the two can go hand in hand. Success in this goes a long way toward making your project and company mission a success, too.
Tech Lead Functions
Each organization will have its own tech lead job descriptions. Some of the tech lead’s duties may overlap with those of other roles but will tend to focus on more technical issues. A tech lead can assist their team members better in specific aspects of coding and technical configurations than non-technical managers can. This still warrants looking at many of the same performance metrics. Read More...
