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11 things I learnt about leadership from bad managers

I've had some great leaders in my career. Some were direct managers and some were the leaders I needed when my direct managers weren't right.

I've been lucky to learn a great deal from my leaders and mentors but there have been some times when I've also learnt from my their mistakes. This is not an exhaustive list, but avoiding some of these pitfalls could help you be a better leader.

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Experimenting with large story sizes

A few friends and I have been doing what a lot of people have been doing with the extra time COVID has given them - we are working on a side project.

We choose to utilise a Scrum framework for the MVP as we thought it would keep us on track and we weren't sure what our velocity would be.

We then ordered the backlog and got to work on the first sprint.

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