How to be a leader of a software team

Management never has a fixed pattern, because people, because of the environment and different. Modern intellectuals, especially in the field of software development, for the management of personnel is a difficult thing.
In the last century, the founder of Management, Drucker, suggested that intellectuals could not be managed as workers do, not in accordance with the old hierarchy of management or the strict management of the military. For these ideas are sharp, in the bones have like literati pride, the pursuit of free and open environment of the people, you can not just to manage them, but to lead them, you are not as a manager, but as a mentor. The charm of the individual is more important than the actual power.
In my personal experience, whether you are team Leader,sa or PM, the following points are important to manage your teams:

1. You have a technical aspect, usually team leader, SA must be technical background, and the technology is very cow, and PM is not necessarily but PM also can not completely understand the technology, you at least in the project management is stronger. Most of the people who do technology will only admire people who know more than themselves.

2. You need to constantly communicate with your team, mingle, imagine a PM, one weeks without people, one months did not have a meeting, let people feel high above, fascinated by the same characters, then your team how cohesive, how they find their own direction and sense of belonging.

3. You may be an expert or technical research in depth, of course, you may not specialize in a particular aspect, but the development of technology is very comprehensive, with these as the basis you will need to be helpful, you are not only to manage them, you also have to help your team members to guide them to achieve the goal. You can't just be a manager, you have to be more like a mentor, it is necessary to give them a lot of training, technical or managerial aspects, you give them the impression that the strong, willing to help them, you or the teacher will teach them many things, you and they stand together rather than high. But at the same time you have to note that since it is a teacher, you can not have no majesty, for some people who are not responsible for the work you will need to take out your majesty.

4. You have to be genuinely good for your team members, for them to gain more benefits, of course, this is without prejudice to the collective interests of the premise. You should be more considerate of them, they are your people, you can not step on them to climb up. You have to make them feel that you can depend on it and it is worthwhile to work hard for you.

5. To understand them, but also to understand them, saying goes to the death of a friend, a woman for Yue has, you have to find their merits, guide them to enlarge their advantages and long, do not stare at their mistakes, who do not make mistakes, no wrong how to grow. You should do more to discover their strengths. You have to trust them, you can not always feel that they do not do anything bad, everything to do their own to be assured that, if so, who is willing to work for you, you will be exhausted.

I see some people who do not have a lot of power and are not very high in their positions, but their charisma helps them gain more respect and popularity. What an SA says is even more useful than PM and manager words. To do this is not easy, many technical backgrounds want to be an architect, but the architect in a project, although the status is high, but there is not much practical management power and administrative power, the people who are committed to becoming architects need to strive to improve their personal accomplishment and personality charm, need to constantly study and study, To increase their knowledge.