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Set Up Your Team for Success

As technologists, it can sometimes help to imagine our teams as software systems. In this chapter, we’ll address some environment variables that will affect your team’s productivity and happiness. What are environment variables? I’m glad you asked. According to Wikipedia,

An environment variable is a dynamic-named value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. They’re part of the environment in which a process runs. A running program can access the values of environment variables for configuration.

Like with software programs, you as a leader may need to define some environment variables dynamically, depending on the situations you find yourself in. Judgment, experience, and vision—you’ll ...

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