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What do you think are some prominent errors a manager makes or may make when trying to "level-up" their engineering team? (Like in what are the challenges involved and where are the traps along the way)
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Hmm, this seems like a pretty vague question. Engineering managers, who are already thinking of how to "level up" their engineering team are already doing something right.
I hope this means they are delegating well, setting a vision, helping the team and its members be more autonomus, and the like.
The biggest mistake I could think of is not looking for feedback from the team and team stakeholders. A "leveled up" team should have better output from the perception of both the stakeholders, and the team members. Blindly making what a manager would think of improvements, without observing how they work, will probably not help.
Developer by day, curious by night.
What I do care most are people. I started as Full Stack developer on a Ruby On Rails project.
Now focusing on bridging development with operations and security.
Hi Gergely, thanks for this AMA!
What do you think are some prominent errors a manager makes or may make when trying to "level-up" their engineering team? (Like in what are the challenges involved and where are the traps along the way)
Hmm, this seems like a pretty vague question. Engineering managers, who are already thinking of how to "level up" their engineering team are already doing something right.
I hope this means they are delegating well, setting a vision, helping the team and its members be more autonomus, and the like.
The biggest mistake I could think of is not looking for feedback from the team and team stakeholders. A "leveled up" team should have better output from the perception of both the stakeholders, and the team members. Blindly making what a manager would think of improvements, without observing how they work, will probably not help.
Sorry for having been vague, the answer is along the line of what I was expecting.
Thanks!