A SWE team first-most needs leader. Most senior and competent members of the team to focus on the bigger picture, dive into most important details, making commi

A SWE team first-most needs leader. Most senior and competent members of the team to focus on the bigger picture, dive into most important details, making commitments, having a decisive say on technical details and taking responsibility for the overall technical results, but not doing the "HR stuff". Then, in larger teams, there's some room for HR-like stuff - salary negotiation, personal conflicts, carrier growth opportunities, "how are you feeling" kind of stuff. The managers should only do the later, but most of the time they completely take over the former, becoming clueless jira ticker shufflers, that multiply like rabbits, because they always think "we need more Managers, because I can't keep up with all the jira shuffling and meetings overheads I created".