Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development: How To Lead Your Team Remotely

This book provides a practical guide on how to lead successful agile projects in a remote environment, drawing from industry experience and a wide range of fields and disciplines. It offers tips on maintaining technical oversight, managing deadlines, and calibrating expectations, while also creating and maintaining a healthy remote work environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 10 December 2022
Publisher: APress

If you're wondering why your engineers can't deliver, why so many are leaving, or why your software is riddled with bugs, you've come to the right place. This book acts as a concise, practical guide on how to lead successful agile projects in a remote environment. The authors draw from industry experience and a wide range of fields and disciplines, from software engineering to criminology and sociology, to teach you how to maintain technical oversight, manage deadlines, and calibrate expectations, while also creating and maintaining a healthy remote work environment. You will gain both practical tips grounded in reality, while learning why such tips work by navigating the background on which they are founded—from Broken Window Theory, Labeling Theory, to the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development will show you how to avoid the most common mistakes and pitfalls that cause engineering projects to fail while at the same time maintaining high ethical standards.

What You'll Learn:

Manage feedback, reduce bureaucracy, create and adapt processes

Understand what to look for in new hires

Carve out a solid road to success for any type of software project

Who This Book Is For:

Anyone who is in, or wishes to move into, an IT leadership position, such as senior software engineers, founders, engineering managers, or team/tech leads.

Weight: 279g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484287187
Edition number: 1st ed.