Encouraging autonomy within engineering teams

Autonomy is a wonderful thing. Here’s how to relinquish control and empower your engineering teams to deliver more impact.

When individual contributors transition into management for the first time, they often struggle with control. After all, success as an engineer up until that point has been nothing but control: writing code to make computers and data do exactly what we want them to do.

However, running a successful team is about relinquishing that control. It’s about delegation, self-organization, and ensuring that the team intuitively knows what the most important thing to be working on is.

I’m Director of Engineering at Shopify, where we expect our teams to be highly autonomous.

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