Council Post: The Entrepreneurial Software Engineer’s Path To Business Leadership
Summary
They produce code—a new modality of value for which we find ever more applications and that we can serve customers at a marginal cost of close to zero. But to fully realize their impact, software engineers must go beyond coding and expand their skills and interests into product and business. Start writing tickets, technical design documents (TDDs) and request for comments (RFCs) within your organization and be willing to go through multiple authoring and editing cycles to polish them. Beyond technical writing, you can build your soft skills by mentoring junior team members, attending product and design meetings and contributing to shared company documents. Help them achieve their goals and work your way toward mutually beneficial, positive-sum relationships.