The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

by Camille Fournier

identifying the causes of failures, especially frequent failures, and trying to figure out what we can change to solve for those failures. This is fundamentally about learning.

reinforce your culture by rewarding people for exhibiting its values in positive ways.

Call out when and how people exhibit some of the core values of the team.

Understand what your company’s values are, understand what your team’s values are, and think about what you personally value. Write the values down if they aren’t already written, and try to be explicit.

In a product-focused structure, the leadership focus changes. Now the engineers who have the best product sense, the engineers who are capable of getting features done quickly and efficiently, and the engineers who communicate the best with the other functions will start to emerge as the leaders of the team.