If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactoring is something you do all the time in little bursts.