Self managed teams are a nice concept and has values to certain extent. However, a team that lacks having technical leadership can drift along as time goes on and especially when a number of hard decisions have to be made.
In this presentation we will discuss the role of technical leaders, their responsibilities, and how they can be effective in leading a bunch of highly skilled, opinionated technical people.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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