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Redefining Success: From Solo Output to Team Outcomes
Great IT leadership replaces personal throughput with team outcomes, sustainable delivery, and psychological safety. If your calendar looks different, that is progress. Share a moment when you celebrated someone else’s win and noticed your role shifting.
Story: The PagerDuty Paradox
Amira, once the fastest debugger on her team, felt indispensable until incidents spiked. By pairing, documenting runbooks, and rotating ownership, alerts dropped by half within a quarter. She led by becoming less central, not more heroic. What would that look like for you?
Communication That Moves Code and People
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Use inputs, outputs, constraints, and failure modes to frame tough updates. State the decision, the why, and the trade-offs. When leaders communicate like architects, stakeholders feel clarity instead of chaos. Try it and tell us what changed.
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Protect one-on-ones as your highest-leverage ritual. Balance status with coaching questions and long-term growth topics. Ask, “Where are you stuck?” and “What would great look like?” Share your favorite coaching question to inspire other readers.
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Define severity, owners, and timelines before crises. Use neutral language and focus on next best action. After resolution, document learnings in a shared space. Subscribe for our weekly templates that keep escalations clear and calm.
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Record not only technical choices but also team norms, tooling standards, and rollout strategies. Capture context, options, and consequences. This practice compounds trust and speeds onboarding. Have you tried ADRs for process changes? Tell us how it went.
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Counter hindsight and anchoring by asking, “What else could this be?” and “What would invalidate our current hypothesis?” Short, repeatable prompts prevent tunnel vision. Download our checklist by subscribing and share your favorite addition.
Leading Agile, DevOps, and SRE Cultures
Use deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore as guiding metrics. Pair them with customer outcomes and on-call health. Post your team’s north star metric and we’ll suggest a companion measure.
Leading Agile, DevOps, and SRE Cultures
Run blameless post-incident reviews, lightweight design reviews, and weekly demo hours. Make learning visible, not optional. When trust grows, risk shrinks. Share a ritual that transformed your team’s cadence and why it worked.
Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship in Tech
Identify mentors for domain depth, cross-functional influence, and career navigation. One person cannot cover every need. Build a balanced bench and keep it warm. Comment with one mentor you plan to approach this month.
Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship in Tech
Swap answers for questions like, “What options have you not considered?” and “What would make this easier by half?” You’ll unlock autonomy and creativity. Share a coaching question that sparked insight for your teammate.
Strategic Thinking and Product Partnership
Frame initiatives as bets with hypotheses, leading indicators, and kill criteria. This language clarifies uncertainty and fosters honest prioritization. Post a bet you’re considering and we’ll help refine its signals.
Strategic Thinking and Product Partnership
List sponsors, skeptics, and beneficiaries. Understand incentives and preferred communication channels. Meet people where they are, not where you wish they were. Share a stakeholder challenge, and we’ll crowdsource strategies from readers.
