https://riley.thecsillags.com/categories/management/ Recent content in Management on about:rileycsillag fka drewcsillag Hugo en-us Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:00:00 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2025-03-15-non-technical-guide-to-techic/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:00:00 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2025-03-15-non-technical-guide-to-techic/ <p>This is a presentation I&rsquo;ve done now about six times, starting back about 6 years ago. It stemmed from seeing people new to being a tech-lead on a team (either as manager or not) and what were the common pitfalls they fell into. So without further ado, the talk.</p> <!-- more --> <p>Hi and welcome to the non-technical guide to technical leadership!</p> <p>One preface here before we start, I refer to the role of tech lead (or TL) often in this talk, but to be clear, the tech lead is a role, not a title. You may be an engineer, or a manager. Basically, any project which you are responsible for driving technical decisions on, you are the TL.</p> https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2025-02-27-contract-to-the-team/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2025-02-27-contract-to-the-team/ <p>When I switched to management last year on April 5, one of the things I wanted to start with was to make sure that my teams understood what they could expect from me and hold me to. I had been at the company for over three years and interacted with many of them before, so I wasn&rsquo;t a stranger, but one thing I&rsquo;ve learned is that clarity rarely hurts in situations like these. And so I wrote up a &ldquo;contract&rdquo; of what they could expect from me. I later updated it to be what they could expect from the managers that report up to me as well, including things like PTO, sick time, not micromanaging, and so on.</p>