Rudolf Podcast

Brought from Neverfriday.com: THE TEAM LEAD AS COACH Today I wanted to address coaching for team leads. What I'm going to cover today applies in other management and leadership positions, but the example I'm using is one specifically for team leads of software development teams. Let's set up the scenario. You're a team lead on a web development team and one of the junior developers has been working on some code. It's time to check their progress in more depth. The code they have written after a few days is okay but could use some improvements, such as adding more tests or matching the code style or there could be a major architectural improvement. The junior developer is waiting on you to see how much rework they have to do. If your first reaction is to jump in and just fix their code, then you might be a fixer. A fixer is a manager or leader who has the urge to fix things to meet their own high standards. Jill Geisler discusses this in her article, “Are you a coach or a fixer?” and says, “Fixing is a tempora