His name is Tim, and he had moved up from being a developer on the team into being their manager (with a bit of a stent managing elsewhere). He trusted the dev team with whatever they said (which was safe in that particular team). He would ask the important questions to make sure that we were considering the alternatives and so that he could understand our decision against those, but he ultimately knew that the team was going to do everything in their power to keep the products stable. He told me once that "If we can't get the work done without you here for a couple of days, then we are doing something wrong" and I really liked that mindset. We were a team that should be able to cover each other's work. He would also keep the developers out of unnecessary meetings as much as possible. There was also a really great quality that he had that you could talk to him about things that you still needed to look into, and let him know ahead of time what possibilities you were considering and he would just acknowledge and move on. The biggest issue that I've had with a less technical manager is their wanting to take immediate action on everything that they are told when it isn't necessary. It takes time to get on the same page as your manager.
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His name is Tim, and he had moved up from being a developer on the team into being their manager (with a bit of a stent managing elsewhere). He trusted the dev team with whatever they said (which was safe in that particular team). He would ask the important questions to make sure that we were considering the alternatives and so that he could understand our decision against those, but he ultimately knew that the team was going to do everything in their power to keep the products stable. He told me once that "If we can't get the work done without you here for a couple of days, then we are doing something wrong" and I really liked that mindset. We were a team that should be able to cover each other's work. He would also keep the developers out of unnecessary meetings as much as possible. There was also a really great quality that he had that you could talk to him about things that you still needed to look into, and let him know ahead of time what possibilities you were considering and he would just acknowledge and move on. The biggest issue that I've had with a less technical manager is their wanting to take immediate action on everything that they are told when it isn't necessary. It takes time to get on the same page as your manager.