A Great team is cultivated by leaders in Environments where it can thrive.Sillygoose
Most Developers burn out because often the sytem is working against them. your team’s struggles are yours. There are FIVE essential principles for running a good team and delivering excelence. they eliminate FIVE pitfalls that destroys morale and devistate projects.
Simplicity and Locality
Deliverance from Dependency Hell
Work should be structured so that teams can make changes quickly and independently, without needing to coordinate with many other teams or systems. When devs can only make a change with 5 approvals, cross-team co-ordination and 2 meetings, the entire project is doomed from the moment it started.
Keep It Simple and Local
Focus, Flow, and Joy
Eleminate Disruptions, Burnout, and Zero Flow
Developers should be able to work in a state of flow without constant interruptions, bureaucratic hurdles, or technical debt slowing them down. If it can be an email , there is no need for a meeting, if there are bureaucratic road blocks there cannot be deep work.
A frustrated developer is an unproductive developer
Continuous improvement
Preventing Stagnation
This should be priority, meaning teams should constantly look into refining their tools and processes instead of prioritizing just new features. Resistance to change leads to outdated tools, inefficiency and lost opptunity that can drag a team down or bleed a team of its best members.
status quo is not an option.
Psychological Safety
Ridding of the Blame Culture
Teams should feel safe to take risks, experiment, and learn from failures without fear of punishment. Punishing failure does not lead to better performance , it leads to people hiding mistakes and finding ways to blame others. Failure is a constant in life, thats how we evolve.
Fail fast and fail often and learn from the mistakes.
Customer Focused
Abolish the Politics
All decisions should be customer centric. user centric development will always win against internal KPIs because this is not manufacturing. Teams that prioritize vanity metrics loose their focus from what the customer wants to what the executives demands.
Eyes always on the prize.
Final Thoughts:
🚀as they say “Great teams don’t happen by accident they are cultivated by leaders creating Environments where they can thrive.“
