Chapter 31. You’re the lead, not the know-it-all
by Johanna Rothman
One of the traps team leads encounter is the need to know it all. It doesn’t matter if you’re a team lead of 3 people or 30 people; you became a team lead because of your technical skill, right? That must mean you’re pretty smart, and you’re supposed to lead, right? You’re supposed to have lots of great ideas. You’re supposed to know lots of things. You’re supposed to be able to solve lots of problems. Well, that doesn’t mean you have to solve every problem yourself.
Many years ago, when I was a technical lead, I was also the project manager. We were a three-person project. I was the team lead, Andy was my junior person, and Mark was my mechanical engineer. We were working ...
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