Tag: Engineering Leadership
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What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Dev Manager
When I first stepped into a dev manager role, I thought I had a pretty good handle on what was coming. I’d been around long enough, led a few projects, mentored juniors, dealt with deadlines. Seemed like a natural next step. Spoiler: I was wrong. Becoming a dev manager isn’t a promotion—it’s a whole new…
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Helping Your Team See the Bigger Picture
I’ve worked with plenty of talented devs who could debug gnarly logic, optimize slow queries, and write clever abstractions—but struggled to see why their work mattered beyond the next ticket. Early in my leadership journey, I assumed it was enough to just assign tasks and let people do their thing. After all, I trusted the…
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Keeping Morale High During Crunch Time
Crunch time. Two words that make most developers groan and most managers sweat. No matter how well you plan, estimate, or try to keep the team agile and lean, there’s always that moment when a deadline barrels toward you like a freight train, and suddenly it’s all hands on deck. It’s stressful. It’s exhausting. But…