Teams should set and uphold a set of values. These come in different shapes and forms. Whether it’s being honest, transparent, responsible, or blameless. The list just goes on. Values are only important if they’re connected to behaviors, i.e. how you typically act regardless of the situation. Nobody behaves erratically over an extended period of time. Given enough self-reflection patterns emerge, and those patterns can be associated with values. I’d like to focus on just two of them in this article.

It’s a rare occasion that companies provide leadership training before you become a manager. A few days or weeks after what was probably one of the happiest days in your recent memory, the day you were offered a position outside of the individual contributor track, you find yourself with a million questions. You feel that you were tricked into signing something without reading the fine print.

Learning to write code in a new programming language is similar to learning a foreign language.

A question I see often thrown around when discussing software development is: