Much more important than being a servant leader, the leader needs to also be a developer himself. Its the only way that the leader is going to understand the n

Much more important than being a servant leader, the leader needs to also be a developer himself. Its the only way that the leader is going to understand the needs of developers in the first place. Non technical middle managers make awful software development leaders, yet that is very common scenario in a wide range of companies. The problem is that executives on top are just not comfortable dealing with developers directly.