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Learn essential leadership skills for software engineering teams in this 17-minute conference talk from ACCU 2025. Discover the unique challenges of transitioning from individual contributor to team leader, exploring why leading people can be more difficult than writing code and how your value shifts when managing a team. Gain insights from Paul Grenyer's 25 years of experience, including his journey from being unexpectedly thrust into leadership roles to consciously choosing team leadership three and a half years ago. Understand the 12-month learning curve required to grasp what effective software team leadership truly means. Explore real-world highs and lows of team leadership, practical lessons learned through experience, and strategies to avoid common leadership mistakes. Benefit from candid reflections on the ongoing nature of leadership development and actionable advice for becoming a more effective team lead in software engineering environments.
