6 secrets to make a small engineering team successful

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It is the world's largest Internet mail order · Internet auction companyEBayHugh E. Williams, vice president of experiences for the company, says, "It is fun to run a small engineering team." It seems to be because they can be familiar with technology, can be near an organization writing program codes, and can tackle practical problems. And he says there are six secrets to operate this small team.

6 secrets for successful small teams | Hugh E. Williams
http://hughewilliams.com/2012/06/05/6-secrets-for-successful-small-teams/

1. Show example
According to Williams, one of the common reasons why someone who became a leader of a small team fails is to stop the technical work that he is good at. "What team engineers want from the leaders is to lead them, work on the most difficult issues, and show examples." What you need to become a good leader of a small team seems to be an example of an engineer by working on technical areas, writing program code at least half the time and designing .

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2. Set a simple and straightforward goal
Although we do not succeed unless we know what success is, we are surprisingly that many companies do not have objective and measurable criteria as to what they will succeed . So what Mr. Williams is doing, for example, as a goal, we prepare a graph showing the date of achievement and quantified success criteria, and compare it with a competitor. And by gathering team members around the graph and working together with aiming for success, there is an amazing effect that the team gets excited and a creative idea is born.

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3. Balance of work content
A small successful team is doing small scale projects and large scale projects in parallel. Not only large-scale projects but also small-scale projects are necessary because the success of small projects plays a role in avoiding the dangers of teams when risks arise in large-scale projects. Also, small projects have the role of giving rhythms to the team, and only large projects are "Death march"Williams expresses."

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4. Face with team members
"Team leaders need to understand team members, and we have to make efforts to bring out their full power," says Williams. There are different needs within the team, people who need advice, those who want to have their backs pushed down, just want to know what is the goal of the company. And the only way to discover them is to keep face-to-face on a one-to-one basis with team members. With this method, you will be able to understand them, build trust, and support success.

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Five. Maintain simplicity
If the team is small, there is no need for troublesome steps of work, long meetings, or too much email interaction. For example, Mr. Williams said that in order to communicate with team members, we conduct daily work with a short and short meeting, manage the work of team members, so as to accomplish the task list and tasks we are working on I am using a simple table describing only whether it takes time. Both simplicity is important, and this method is less burdensome for engineers who are team members, so it will be concise and easy to understand for the leaders.

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6. Maintain smallness
The above thing is necessary for the leader of a small team composed of 4 to 8 people. With more people, it is often impossible to perform the above six. Mr. Williams concludes as follows. "If you take the leadership correctly, your little team will be able to change the world and continue to change the world Good Luck"

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