From Dev to Manager: Shifting Your Mindset

I'm finding that managing developers requires leaving more things unfinished on my own task list. Helping someone else get unstuck can be the work, even when it doesn't leave me with a commit to point at.

The temptation is to take the difficult task back and do it myself. Sometimes that's necessary, but it can also stop someone learning. I need to be clearer about the outcome, agree when we'll check in, and give them room to approach it differently.