--- title: Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team | daily.dev description: Thiago Ghisi shares lessons from building a resilient engineering leadership team at QCon London. Key practices include intentional leadership group formation... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lessons-from-growing-a-software-leadership-team-ybp7c7a84 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team | daily.dev og:description: Thiago Ghisi shares lessons from building a resilient engineering leadership team at QCon London. Key practices include intentional leadership group formation... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/lessons-from-growing-a-software-leadership-team-ybp7c7a84 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ybp7c7a84.png og:image:alt: Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Lessons from Growing a Software Leadership Team **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Thiago Ghisi shares lessons from building a resilient engineering leadership team at QCon London. Key practices include intentional leadership group formation through off-sites, regular syncs for accountability, expectation calibration at cycle start, and making peers each other's 'first team.' He emphasizes that culture is defined by actions during crises rather than stated values, advocates for documenting reorganization rationale before brainstorming structural changes, and stresses fixing interpersonal or skill gaps before pushing delivery. Continuous improvement is embedded through lessons-learned rituals, and team topology experiments are run with clear revert criteria to maintain psychological safety. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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