+ The Role of Postmortems in CS

Lead the Way! A practical guide to team leadership

When you’re promoted to a high position, your main priority and responsibility should be a leader, rather than your actual role

Improving leadership

Find a mentor
Effective communication
- Proactive, transparent, clear
Learn to listen
- Encourage elaboration
- What/why
Active listneing
Paraphrase what you heard to resolve conflcits
Have 1 on 1 meetings
- Mutual trust buidl through regular meetings, allow for sensitive topics based on location choice
- Not status update
Really listen
- No distractions
- Make people feel important
- Take notes
Set clear expectations
- Clear guidelines with little ambiguousness
Learn to delegate
- Let people “grab” tasks, assign rest
- Don’t overcommit as you need to observe
Team involvement
- Show you trsut your team
Provide challenges not solutions
- Let people learn new skills and tailor to each person
Respectful praise and crticism

Failing to fail helps us learn from our mistakes to make improvements to our product, just like how they improved the spiderweb software through continous failure and iteration
Man was okay with getting in the bare minimum as long as he had something tangible to show

Steps for game company

Try out the other products in your field and learn from their best components

I already read books about leadership and business so these concepts are not new to me, it’s interesting to see them implemented into an actual example though through game companies, especially indie
I’m not sure if I want to pursue indie game dev but I do want to try games
can agree with the advice on the 2nd video, I had a hit video on Youtube and its helped kickstart my channel a lot

Don’t quit main job until you can afford to

Important lesson to have a steady foundation, was planning to drop out of high school to pursue something but if I didn’t end up successful that would have been kinda bad lul

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Created:: 2022-03-13 23:03