The Software Engineer's Guidebook

CHAPTER 19

TEAM STRUCTURE

As a tech lead, you can have an outsized influence in shaping your team’s dynamics and processes. But how do you use this influence to create a structure that’s healthy and functions well?

In this chapter, we cover:

1. Roles and titles
2. Team processes
3. Boosting team focus

1. ROLES AND TITLES

How does your team work, and who has which responsibilities? Ultimately, the manager of the team is responsible for ensuring these are clear. As a tech lead, you need to understand how roles are defined and divided across the team for your own role and fellow team members.

The difference between titles and roles

Titles confer reasonable expectations upon their holder. For example, a software engineer with the title ...