"You wanted to be a manager so badly, that you'd probably be a good one. Now you are." Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else. This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management). It bothered me. I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....
I am a Technical Team Leader. I have some developers reporting to me. So let me say this; Regulated, Regimented development. That's what I try to use most of the time. Yes, really. It is extremely important to start a project with good specifications. First, this means that I have had several conversations with my customers about what they are expecting to get out of the project, and how they expect to interact with it before anybody starts coding....
Big day at work today. Looks like a lot of things are changing all at once. The biggest thing about this, for me, is that I'm going to be working with a larger team. My job title is Technical Team Leader, but up to now, I've been dealing primarily with projects. During this project work, I've had between 1 and 5 people who are working on those projects. The guy I work for directly managed the people, while I just gave technical direction (leadership?...