1 year ago

https://github.com/detkin made a serious mistake in his first month as a new software team manager: He forgot to manage “up.” So I guess they’re going to assume that we’re doing great and in the absence of information they’ll assume we’re doing awesome, right?”

Atlassian develops software for developers, program managers and software development teams.

“It’s an unusual thing to take the best engineers and turn them into managers, because there’s not always an overlap.”

For instance, he hired a manager for an existing team, but he gave him technical duties before the people management duties.