Delegation
Explore the key principles of delegation within software engineering management. Understand how to transfer responsibilities appropriately, avoid common delegation mistakes, and support your team for better performance and reduced managerial stress.
We'll cover the following...
What is delegation?
Now that we’ve covered strategies for communicating well with our staff, we’ll look at one of the most powerful tools that you have as a manager: delegation. Remember that as an engineer, you write the code and delegate the work to computers all the time. Being an effective manager involves learning how to do this with people. We’ll show you how.
Simply put, delegation is the transfer of responsibility for a task from yourself to a direct report. For example, if you’ve been asked to produce a report, you can delegate that task to somebody on your team, and when the work is finished, it can be given to the person who requested it. All the while you can be doing something else. That’s delegation. It sounds ...