As a technical team lead of a small team of web developers, I have been finding it difficult lately to identify and focus on the core responsibilities of keeping my team running. Specifically, I'm finding myself pulled in several directions between doing actual hands-on development work, allocating work items to team members, making / a...
As a Technical Team Lead, I've been finding it very difficult to stay involved in development while delivering on my responsibilities of documentation, design decisions (architecture), meetings and the like. As a consequence, I've really started to notice a decline in my programming skills and a marked inability to learn and develop new...
I'm facing something of a crisis of faith. As I find myself being diverted onto more and more administrative tasks or functions other than direct hands-on development, it's become more and more glaringly obvious that my technical ability is diverging from that of the team. Do you believe it is possible to maintain credibility and respe...
My company is undergoing a reasonably major relocation project and my manager, who works in a different building, will soon be located even further from my team and I than before. While it would be fair to say we didn't see a lot of him before, his presence, involvement and interest in my team's progress is likely to all but disappear n...
Closely related to this question, I'm in the middle of putting together my Key Performance Indicators for the new year but could use some fresh ideas. What are some good candidates for performance objectives as a Technical Team Lead? Obviously there will be the technical code-related ones (which are discussed in the above-referenced po...
I feel like I'm beating my head against a brick wall sometimes. I was just talking to someone in my company about the need to encourage our [company's internal] client to put thought into their requirements up front and make a bigger effort to ensure that they're fixed before providing them to my development team to start on. The argum...
We have a relatively small team of developers with less than 5 people in it and a project manager. What do you think is the typical set of responsibilities a project manager should have in such a team ? I am looking at the thing more from the developer's perspective and want to know what should I expect from the manager and what should I...
I don't want my PHP coder to write Javascript anymore. I want to separate javascript coding and php coding. How should I write documentation about this interaction? Let's imagine really simple ajax request. As for me documentation should contain sequence flow diagram. user is clicking "edit" button preloader is shown to user ajax requ...
I don't know exactly how to express this problem because it may seem childish but this team member is a very difficult person. For example when he's being given a task that is either important or difficult, he always asks the other members of the other teams about how to handle it. He doesn't come to ask the team leader or discuss about...
Possible Duplicate: Recommended reading for new team lead As a programming team leader, which books do you recommend? Books about HR, good programming practices etc. I have recently seen PHP Team Development but it is not mind blowing for experienced developers. One of the best I can recommend is Microsoft Manual of Style f...
I recently got promoted to be the Project Manager/Supervisor. What do you think the leadership style a managerial role in Programming Dev't should have? What's your style? ...