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#105 - Coaching for Technical Leaders - Bob Galen

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How Did You Become a Leader?

First job out of college was in 19 80 as an assembler programmer. Became a manager after a few years, and then a director at senior leadership rolls. In the mid nineties to late nineties, i discovered something called agal. The key for me was extreme programming at the time and scrum. I've always been a people oriented leader. No, i suppressed my ego. And i realized that technical leadership isn't about me. It's about the teams. How am i sort of building and encouraging and guiding teams to do kickas products, basically, and do great work? An agile was always a tool box or a way to facilitate that. Soak my style was

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