This blog was originally published on my football coaching blog, but I decided to cross-post it as many of its points come from, or apply to, the professional management world as well as the football coaching world.

As I reach the end of my 3rd season as a community coach, I can happily look back at the many dozens of matches and training sessions that we went through as a team. So many positives of course, and the usual hiccups.

But also quite a few thoughts about the styles of management I have come across (including my own!), and what it means to make young football players happy. So see below…

Over time, anybody involved in recruitment develops a few favorite interview questions. Here is one of mine, which I use regardless of the role I’m interviewing for - be it developer, architect, scrum master, systems engineer, team lead or else.

Leading a startup’s tech or product team is full of challenges. The amount of uncertainty can be overwhelming: what will happen next month, next year, who will I need to hire, what are we going to build?

Here I will cover a pattern I have seen with Product teams in startups: how they grow and how they share their responsibilities over time.

I have had the chance to work on the Product and Technical team structure of several tech businesses. One particular exercise I found very simple yet useful: to draw up a detailed list of the responsibilities of the Product team.