Leadership: what I’ve learnt in the past 3 years (first post in series)

In the last two and half years, I had the opportunity to lead an amazing team in developing the next generation of IBM-XIV Storage Management product (a.k.a. IBM Hyper Scale Manager).

Our goal was to create a new experience that would change the way our customers manage their storage in a way that reduces the storage management TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

We started building this product from scratch, in a “startup” like environment, where we needed to run fast, balancing between the need for rock solid infrastructure, CI and automation and the need to constantly deliver new features, to get an MVP that we can demo and convince others of our revolution.

This was a really exciting and challenging time for me — the long hours, high pressure and the passion to make our “baby” the best was a roller coaster, both for me and the team — but what a hell of a ride it was!

Looking back on this period, I feel that facing these challenges has really helped me to shape my view and agenda as a Team Leader.

It’s really hard to write down all the things I learned, but throughout a series of 3 posts, I’ll try to share my perspective and the principals I believe can make you a great (team) leader by going over 7 main aspects — hoping that you’ll find it useful.

You can see the full first post in the series: http://bit.ly/2bax0Vj