Autonomous teams require great technical leaders

Autonomous teams are like unicorns; everyone talks about them, some know a bit about them, and some believe they have wings. Others are so sure they will issue unicorn certificates.

What conditions are necessary for a team to be successfully autonomous? They need the right environment, the right framing, and the right leadership. This leadership comes from managers, senior developers, and architects working with the team.

In this talk, Jakob and Gitte will share experiences of autonomous teams enabled by great leaders and stories of where autonomy was damaging because of lacking conditions. They will talk about what to expect of managers, architects, staff engineers, and senior engineers to enable autonomy.