Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 093 | Patrick Kua - Leading Leaders
Guest:
Pat Kua talks with Dave Rael about the characteristics of leadership, embodying leadership, motivation, and challenges
Patrick Kua is a Principal Technical Consultant for ThoughtWorks in London, and is the author of two books, The Retrospective Handbook and Talking with Tech Leads. Patrick is a frequent conference speaker and blogger who is passionate about bringing a balanced focused between people, organisations and technology.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Patrick Kua
- - Patrick's emphasis on technical leadership
- - Patrick's definition of value
- - The things that "light Patrick up"
- - How Patrick got started in software
- - Patrick's history and background and move into software
- - How Patrick's background led to a focus on organizations and leadership
- - Patrick's story of failure - learning about needing to have tough conversations early with the right people
- - Patrick's story of success - using feature leads to scale leadership in an organization
- - How Patrick stays current with what he needs to know
- - Patrick's book recommendation
- - Continuous integration, continuous deployment, feedback, emotions, and pull requests
- - The things that have Patrick most excited
- - Patrick's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Patrick likes to geek out
- - The importance of diet and the challenges of eating well when traveling
- - Patrick's prediction for the future of software
- - Patrick's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Pat
Resources:
- Pat's Blog
- The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams - Patrick Kua
- Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners - Patrick Kua
- Pat's Presentations
- ThoughtWorks
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink
- Extreme Programming Values (including emphasis on courage)
Pat's book recommendation:
Pat's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Technical excellence matters2. Everyone can be a leader regardless of role
3. Exercise empathy
