Connecting Engineers with Skills for Effective Technical Leadership
Technical refers to knowing the technology you work with and keeping abreast of trends and creating solutions based upon technology that exists as well as technology that you develop.
To continue your technical develop you need to look at the complexity and scope for the projects you work on. You can develop your knowledge to become an expert in a particular area- depth, or you can go for breadth. Innovation is a measure of technical achievement and often viewed as the ultimate measure. Yet getting the project done with off the shelf parts is just an innovative as designing a custom part to support completing the project. Innovation like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
A Technology Development Perspective If you do not maintain and grow your technical expertise you will limit your pathways in technical leadership. It remains an attribute of your engineer’s career stool that distinguishes this trail from the engineering manager trail. Therefore, as you develop the other legs you never neglect it. “Technical expertise must come first…. Technical leadership starts there. …
