If you want to positively affect code delivery metrics, improve quality, and give your team opportunities to grow, then keep reading. Why is empowering your team important? Your team are on the ground "in the thick of it" day to day, and they are therefore best placed (read: better than you ) to make quick, localised decisions. The last thing you want is for your team to get stuck because they need to talk to you, slowing down the development process, and potentially invoking the negative side effects of context switching. You may be stuck in meetings and now your team are stuck waiting for you to finish. Not ideal. What helps my team to feel empowered? You can help your team to feel empowered by providing them with the contextual awareness they need to make a decision without you. Arming them with the necessary contextual awareness keeps them unblocked, and enables them to make decisions that aren’t based on local factors alone. What are the benefits of distributed de...