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Pros/Cons of transitioning from SDE to SDM of your own team

iliana sach on August 06, 2018

At the Write/Speak/Code 2018 conference an attendee asked me how I first became a Software Development Manager. I explained that as an SDE, I gravi...
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Jan Wedel • Edited

I had a similar experience by getting asked to manage the team I was in. I was already doing a lot of managing work because our manager was kind of Laisser-faire in the bad sense.

Managing people can be easier than you think sometimes but harder in situations that you don’t expect. One important thing when managing your own team: Don’t try to be someone else.
The only CON I see personally is that I have less time for coding. ;)