A hands-on engineering lead with 12 years of experience in multiple industries, developing products & tech running on over 1000 hosts in 5 data centers serving 45 countries and 4 continents.
For me the biggest change is that you need to stop working as individual contributor (past the point that is sustainable) in order to focus in acting as a multiplier, if you can coach, plan or do anything else better that will multiply the productivity of your team that's what you should be doing.
I have a career of seven+ years of experience split across leading engineering teams, web development, game development, and iOS and Android app development.
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Nice summary.
For me the biggest change is that you need to stop working as individual contributor (past the point that is sustainable) in order to focus in acting as a multiplier, if you can coach, plan or do anything else better that will multiply the productivity of your team that's what you should be doing.
I recommend The making of a Manager from Julie Zhuo, that book contains many practical tips
Thank you for sharing your comments and sharing your recommendation!