THE TEXTS
From the Other Side of the Table: A season where you don’t get to speak
Until now, this blog has seen the world from the tech lead’s chair. Now we turn the table. For the next ten weeks, twenty other voices get the floor – the junior, the product owner, the burned out, the customer, even ‘the agent’ – telling you how your leadership actually lands. This is the season opener, and a warning: some of these texts will sting.
S4Nº 01COMING TUE 20/4
‘I don’t dare ask you’ – the junior on your availability
You say the door is always open. I believe you. And still I’m sitting here, third hour on the same problem, rehearsing the wording of a question I’m not going to ask. The first voice in a series where the tech lead is seen from outside, by the people the quiet responsibility is exercised on.
S4Nº 02COMING THU 22/4
‘I don’t understand what you’re saying no to’ – the product owner on technical resistance
You say ‘technical debt’ and ‘architecture’, and to me those are noises. All I hear is my feature losing, again, to something I can’t see, weigh or defend upward. A product owner on what happens across the table when the reasoning never arrives, and why I learned to push harder.
S4Nº 03COMING TUE 27/4
+ 18 more this season