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Discussion on: Promoted From Dev To Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me

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jrogers8835

I went from intern to lead on the same team, first job out of college. (Unheard of practically and frowned upon by a lot but that's not the point). You're spot on. Intern, part time, intro dev, sr dev, was all about churning code faster, cleaner, better, and bigger. I hit lead and BOOM I barely code any more unless I stay late for it but I can't actually own any tickets myself anymore due to time constraints. The rest is just as you said.

1 thing I'd add is learning first hand that teams are air craft carriers not jet skis when it comes to process change. I tried directing their attention to too many places we needed improvement on at once and the fumbled them all. Limiting it to 1 or 2 things until they get it down and then adding 1 or 2 more worked a lot better. I'm talking about things like better code coverage, better sad path testing, resiliency considerations, those kind of things.

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LinearB

Great point. It's tough to change culture and process, especially as a new team lead. Starting with some basic changes that the entire team can understand is a good philosophy.