Meta Results are the collateral effects of great management. Leaders who achieve meta results don't just "get the job done" but instead they also leave their companies and teams improved, with expanded capabilities for the future. A focus on meta results with an unrelenting baseline of project planning for project goals will allow any new manager to rate highly from the perspective of all stakeholders.
Functional Leadership is a first leadership step taken by some technologists who want to establish their own capabilities without taking the full risk of engaging in personnel supervision. Functional leaders establish domain expertise and share it readily. Not content to catalogue and repeat information, functional leaders must set direction and resolve conflict in sometimes unpopular ways for the best long-term results.
A Management Program is a set of pre-determined communications and processes that a leader builds-up over time in response to a perpetual search for excellence. As if creating and testing software, a developer who moves in to leadership creates a management program and tests it out, improving it when encountering new circumstances.
Management Use Cases are examples of circumstances encountered in everyday leadership roles. The management use cases presented in You.next() and in the ongoing blog provide an orientation to the management role but every new manager will write his or her own case deck in due time.
Willing Followers is a topic discussed by many authors. Our focus is on the following learnable skills needed by any new leader:
• Be admirable
• Be fair
• Be informed
• Be accessible
• Listen
Software Heroes are individuals who take on a growing amount of responsibility for a product or portion of a product to the point that their own long-term growth is jeopardized. Too precious to be placed in an ordinary entry-level leadership role and too busy to be trained in new skills, these heroes accomplish a great deal in the short term but can burn-out without support from caring leaders.
