iOS Team Lead

I’ve been leading the iOS team for almost a year and a half and have gained a lot of experience during that time. The team size was between 5 and 8 people working on different projects within the company.

As the company’s principles of work were facing towards the goal of becoming a Teal Organization with holocratic principles, my role as a team leader was more representative and strategic than managerial as the right to make decisions was always in the hands of the whole team. The role was focused mainly on leadership and facilitating all information flow - in other words: ensuring that everyone was informed of everything they needed to and providing context for any decisions that had to be made.

In our internal jargon, the role was called the House of iOS Lead 👑

There was also the aforementioned strategic component, as I had to plan the capacities (co-operation with project planning and hiring) and organize the distribution of knowledge within the team - i.e. putting together the right pairs of trainee-mentor or assigning the right code reviewer for each of us. I’ve tried to work with each team member’s individual motivations and talk to them regularly about their desires and future prospects, but also went through things like 360° feedback to try to find areas where they can improve and help them find steps to do so.

Given that the company was going through a transformation to the advanced holocratic system, it was quite challenging to get things right and required creating a few systems on the fly 😅. But I personally think that I managed to get it right and performed the role correctly. You can also see in the Recommendation section on the homepage that the feedback on my work within this role has been positive.

My video medallion as a team lead - unfortunately, only in Czech