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Discussion on: What is a good team lead in your opinion?

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀

An old thread I know but just bumped into it.

A team lead needs to have the right amount of

  • people skills to be able to manage people
  • technical skills to be able to understand the tech side of things
  • negotation skills to be able to negotiate tasks/time between stakeholders
  • keep calm under pressure and see clear actions forward
  • realist to be able to analyze and possibly discard long running or unecessary tasks

Unfortunately many times TEAM/PM people are just the voice of management pushing down on developers to do more work or more time and satisfy the client and managers.