The Coaching Leader & Architect
summary
Claim: leaders must make yourself unneeded by removing bottlenecks and growing others into architects, not just hoard decisions. Evidence: a single-build expert creates a bus factor of one = three month outage when they leave. Method: push people into learning “ravines,” accept short-term slowdown, and schedule a 30-day re-estimation to cut scope and free time. Practice: explicitly add 3–10x time for first items when teaching TDD, deployments or architecture until the team can operate without the bottleneck.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:00Agenda
- 3:48No difference?
- 4:40Are you a leader?
- 7:25Roles and goals of a leader
- 15:20Growing a team
- 26:40Learning learning
- 35:22Elastic leadership
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