DEV Community

Discussion on: Story: The Worst Day Of 6 Years At Work

Collapse
 
jwp profile image
John Peters

One of the things a new manager doesn't learn until later, is that they cannot do two jobs, that of the technical and the managerial too. They have to separate from the technical which many (like me) are unable to do. But if they don't they become stretched too far doing neither very well.

Collapse
 
kevin074 profile image
kevin074

Agreed.

There are a lot of meetings and discussions for the lead to do. So it is definitely not reasonable for the lead to be a great contributor for all apps. However, I think it is at least reasonable to be familiarized with the app, so that he can be become better communicator with developers as well as better estimator of development time to other higher ups.