Excepts from a Set of Technical Leadership Patterns

The Technical Lead needs to have a thorough understanding of the quality of the software and control over destabilising forces that can effect the delivery. Systems are large, the Lead cannot know everything and there is tendency for lots of small incremental changes to sum to large requirements. This paper presents set of three patterns and their relationships (Code Surfing, Core Sampling and Take Care of the Small Change). The patterns capture practices for helping Technical Leads manage quality and scope in the face of finite management bandwidth and increasing complexity and function. The patterns also discuss problems with over application and identify related practices and patterns that may also be of use.