Product visionary; empowering voices, fostering innovation and facilitating cross-functional collaboration for breakthrough results.
Experienced Technology Leadership HI THERE. I’M JOHAN WIKMAN
Combining technical depth, strategic vision, compassionate leadership skills and business acumen to build and sustain a culture of high-performance engineering teams.
Tranform your company’s engineering culture to build high performing teams.
Establish a clear vision and purpose
Technology leaders must articulate a compelling vision for the engineering organization that aligns with the company's overall mission and strategy. This vision should provide clarity on goals, inspire the team, and give their work deeper meaning and purpose.
Communicating this vision consistently and linking it to day-to-day work is key to high-performing teams.
Agile and DevOps best practices
Adopting modern engineering practices is key to building a high-performance culture. Leadership should champion agile values like collaboration, fast feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
Implementing DevOps - automating processes, measuring performance and making it visible - is also critical. With tools for CI/CD, monitoring and observing, teams should be able to deploy many times per day by leveraging these practices.
Empower teams with autonomy
Micromanagement stifles creativity and motivation. Instead, a technology leader should provide teams with clear objectives and guardrails but empower them to make decisions on how to execute.
Small, cross-functional teams should have end-to-end ownership of features and the freedom to choose their own tools and processes. The leader's role is to remove impediments, secure resources, and keep teams accountable for outcomes.
Trust and open communication
It is vital to create an environment of psychological safety, where engineers feel comfortable taking risks, admitting mistakes, and sharing opinions. Leaders should model vulnerability, encourage healthy debate, and make it safe to fail.
This involves soliciting feedback regularly, being open to criticism, admitting gaps in their own knowledge, and framing failures as learning opportunities.
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