10y director of IT, etc Unless you're at a very small company, this is essentially giving up all the dev work and moving in to a different career entirely. Mak

10y director of IT, etc Unless you're at a very small company, this is essentially giving up all the dev work and moving in to a different career entirely. Make sure that's definitely what you want to do before taking the leap across to management. Some people (eg me) really don't like it, aren't particularly good at it, and realise it was a mistake before going back to a dev role.