w/nate taylor on leadership within software development
guest: nate taylor, director of software development at pluralsight
- leadership does not require a title, leading an epic or owning a deliverable counts as real leadership experience
- before promoting someone into management, sit down and ask if they actually want to manage people instead of assuming
- companies often promote their best coders into leadership without checking if they have the aptitude or desire for it
- build dual tracks so engineers can grow into deep technical expert roles without being forced into management
- to break into software development, pick a real problem you care about and build something, then research issues as they come up