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How to fumble your promotion from developer to manager

How to fumble your promotion from developer to manager

People are sub-components, some with severe tech debt

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David Tate
Aug 28, 2023
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When engineers become managers, they are simply moving up the stack. The system they now work on is a group of people running a process, and instead of learning how people work, they should instead t…

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