Tech Lead Delegation – Baby Steps into Leadership
One of the first steps a technical leader takes is taking over as a team lead. In IT, this is often called a Dev Lead, Tech Lead, or Architect, depending on a company’s teams and title structure, or it can be more understood than titled.
This type of technical leader might not have direct reports, but accepting ownership of the team’s technical success is leadership, and it’s one of the first big responsibility changes and perspective shifts in the process of becoming a technical leader.
Technical leadership means taking on ownership of a team’s technical success.
In the two-part series Technical Leadership Progression, we defined “technical leadership” differently – if you’ve read that one, here we’re using it to mean specifically the Single Team Ownership phase.