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One rule to remember is that your time is more valuable than any of the people working for you. So any task that you are doing that could be done by someone in

One rule to remember is that your time is more valuable than any of the people working for you. So any task that you are doing that could be done by someone in your team should be delegated to the team. Spend your time doing what only you can do. Such as setting priorities, making big calls on the technology for future projects and so forth. I would also recommend that meeting your team members once per week is about right. More than that and your starting to micro manage and you remember as an engineer how annoying that is. More than a week and things can go too far off track before you can pull it back into line again.

UK-AL 10y ago
In a lot technolgy companies. Programmers can earn a lot more than managers.
Daviey 10y ago
wat... "your time is more valuable than any of the people".. i couldn't disagree with this more... but the concept of using time where best placed I agree with.
- rbrcurtis 10y ago
  From a simple dollars and cents POV, the manager usually makes more money than any of their workers.
  - Daviey 10y ago
    I've seen many senior engineers earn more than their manager.. especially with geo-separated teams. I don't think the pay argument holds true...but 'do your job' is a better argument.
sheepmullet 10y ago
> One rule to remember is that your time is more valuable than any of the people working for you. If that is the case where you work it should be the first item on your agenda to change. Otherwise your best tech people just become managers which is pretty much the last thing you want to encourage. Making key tech choices is also not the domain of management. So I guess my advice is work out what is expected of you as a "manager". At some companies this can be a fairly random combination of tech leadership, architecture, project management, and people management. In others these are all seperate roles.

UK-AL 10y ago

In a lot technolgy companies. Programmers can earn a lot more than managers.

Daviey 10y ago

wat... "your time is more valuable than any of the people".. i couldn't disagree with this more... but the concept of using time where best placed I agree with.

rbrcurtis 10y ago
From a simple dollars and cents POV, the manager usually makes more money than any of their workers.
- Daviey 10y ago
  I've seen many senior engineers earn more than their manager.. especially with geo-separated teams. I don't think the pay argument holds true...but 'do your job' is a better argument.

sheepmullet 10y ago

> One rule to remember is that your time is more valuable than any of the people working for you. If that is the case where you work it should be the first item on your agenda to change. Otherwise your best tech people just become managers which is pretty much the last thing you want to encourage. Making key tech choices is also not the domain of management. So I guess my advice is work out what is expected of you as a "manager". At some companies this can be a fairly random combination of tech leadership, architecture, project management, and people management. In others these are all seperate roles.