Thiago Ghisi explained how he guided managers and senior ICs to build a resilient leadership group beneath him in his talk Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations at QCon London. Regular syncs,

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Thiago Ghisi shares lessons from building a resilient engineering leadership team at QCon London. Key practices include intentional leadership group formation through off-sites, regular syncs for accountability, expectation calibration at cycle start, and making peers each other's 'first team.' He emphasizes that culture is defined by actions during crises rather than stated values, advocates for documenting reorganization rationale before brainstorming structural changes, and stresses fixing interpersonal or skill gaps before pushing delivery. Continuous improvement is embedded through lessons-learned rituals, and team topology experiments are run with clear revert criteria to maintain psychological safety.

Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team