2 - Common ground

Tech Lead is not a standardised role, as, for example, a Scrum Master. The Tech Lead role is defined differently among companies.

What is certain is that you are in the middle, interacting with different teams and stakeholders. For example:

  • Devs
  • Business Analysts / Product Owner
  • Product team
  • QA team
  • Software Architects
  • Project Manager
  • The client

There is also a common ground for responsibilities/expectations that can be found in most of the companies. They are:

  • Unblocking the team
  • Mentoring
  • Making technical & non-technical decisions
  • Communicate technical & non-technical decisions
  • Backlog refinement