From engineer to manager
In 2015, I co-founded a company with my friend. Until then I had been working as an individual contributor. Though I had been a technical lead to many projects, I hadn’t managed teams. Over the past 7+ years I have learned a great deal on project and people management. My experience has taught me the most than the books and articles I have read. In this series, I would like to summarize what has worked for me with the hope that it would be helpful for someone following similar trajectory. If you have any feedback, please leave in comments. Project and people management As a manager, you are managing two things: projects and people. They both require different sets of skills. For the most part, managing projects can be learnt from reading books. But managing people is a different skill and it cannot be learnt from books alone. It requires a lot of interacting with people. It requires listening and understanding people’s needs so that you can help them succeed. Usually these nee...