You haven't said how big your team is. From my experience, if your team has more than 4-5 people, you're entering a territory where managing people is going to

You haven't said how big your team is. From my experience, if your team has more than 4-5 people, you're entering a territory where managing people is going to become a significant role itself and not something that can be done on a side as you do your regular engineering. Teams this big often tend to either not finish at all or break up into several smaller ones. It's much easier for smaller teams to cooperate efficiently.