Software development isn't just about the code. Managing technical teams requires a different skill set than software development. It's not about telling everyone else what to do. Managing software development teams requires a mix of technical and soft skills. Technical team managers, engineering leads, project managers, and software development leaders of all kinds share the common goal of increasing the effectiveness of the entire team.

In this episode, Dave Farley from Continuous Delivery gives advice on managing software development teams. How do you make the transition from developer to manager? How do you handle difficult situations and conversations? What are the most common mistakes people make when they're just starting out as team leaders?

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BOOKS:

Dave's NEW BOOK /"Modern Software Engineering/" is now available on
Kindle ️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3
(Paperback version available soon)
In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a lasting, coherent, and fundamental approach to effective software development for programmers, managers, and technical leaders of all experience levels.

/"Continuous Delivery Pipelines/" by Dave Farley
Paperback ️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA
E-book version ️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

The original, award-winning book “Continuous Delivery” by Dave Farley and Jez Humble
️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

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Also from Dave:

CD TRAINING COURSES ️ https://bit.ly/DFTraining

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CHANNEL SPONSORS:

Equal Experts is a product software development consulting firm with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants worldwide. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software development practices that consider continuous delivery, security and usability from the start ️ https://www.equalexperts.com/

Harness helps engineers and developers simplify and scale CI/CD, feature flags, and cloud cost management with an AI-powered software delivery platform. ️ https://bit.ly/3Cfx3qI

Octopus are the makers of Octopus Deploy, the central place where your team can manage releases, automate deployments, and automate the runbooks that keep your software running. ️ https://octopus.com/

SpecFlow Behavior Driven Development for .NET SpecFlow helps teams bind automation to feature files and share the resulting examples as living documentation within the team and with stakeholders. ️ https://go.specflow.org/dave_farley

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