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There’s an inflection point as a manager where you realize that your employees are better than you at a thing you used to do really well. So your new job is to
by wayoutthere 5y ago
There’s an inflection point as a manager where you realize that your employees are better than you at a thing you used to do really well. So your new job is to put them on assignments that will help them grow, provide a safety net if anything goes wrong, and get out of the way.
The flip side is that you have to trust people. I’ve certainly had employees who basically didn’t show up to work. Their team members complained because it was more work on them. That’s a situation where I stepped in, tried to figure out what was wrong, but ultimately had to let the person go because they hadn’t made a pull request in months and didn’t have a good explanation as to why.
- magicalhippo 5y ago> So your new job is to put them on assignments that will help them grow, provide a safety net if anything goes wrong, and get out of the way. I talk to my boss about once a week, social hallway chats excluded. Rest of the week I just do what needs to be done. He mentioned to me soon after joining that he had learned that the less he's in the way of us developers, the more productive we are. So he trusts us to do what we're assigned to do and handle issues that come up. Once in a while he'll come and ask me to handle some specific case ASAP or make sure I know some deadlines, but it's very rare.