Too Long; Didn't Read
I get asked this question so often that I finally decided to write the answer down. Before we go any further:<em> proceed with caution</em>. Good leadership is contextual and you will learn it best from experience not <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/books" target="_blank">books</a>. The first thing I tell new <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/engineering" target="_blank">engineering</a> managers is that blindly following any SCRUM book you’ve read is the surest way to screw up your team. You’ve got to learn to take ideas from many places, contextualize, and apply them to your current situation.