This is definitely the biggest pitfall I’ve run into both as a managed engineer and as a manager. It’s intuitive to think delegation involves forming a specific

This is definitely the biggest pitfall I’ve run into both as a managed engineer and as a manager. It’s intuitive to think delegation involves forming a specific task and giving it to someone else, but that’s a waste of their brain power. Giving them an open problem to solve is going to result in freeing up your mental energy and will make them happier due to increased agency. In general, you want to give workers as much agency as they can competently handle.