In theory I agree that managers should be able to man the trenches with the rest of the team. In practice, I’ve found that to be detrimental rather than helpfu

In theory I agree that managers should be able to man the trenches with the rest of the team. In practice, I’ve found that to be detrimental rather than helpful. I miss coding, I _want_ to jump in and knock out a ticket from time to time, but the reality is that when I try to do that I just get in the way. My role is not to be a developer, it’s to make sure that the developers who work for me are free and clear to do their jobs unimpeded. The vast majority of my time is spent in meetings making sure that my devs don’t need to be there and I just slow everything down when I try to “help”.