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5 questions in Technical Leadership.

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An engineer moves into a technical leadership role and finds their old approach no longer works. What changes?

What changes when you move from making architectural decisions to being responsible for how an organisation makes them?

What distinguishes technical leadership from technical seniority, and how is it measured?

You are the first architect at a 200-engineer company with no architecture function. What do you do in the first three months?

You join a platform group and find four teams have each written their own retry-and-backoff library, with different defaults, and a fifth team has none. Everyone knows this is duplicated. Nobody has consolidated it. What is the diagnosis, and what do you change?