Metadata
- Author: Kevin Stewart
- Full Title:: Should Engineering Managers Write Code?
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: My management principles, values, and practices
- URL:: https://leaddev.com/skills-new-managers/should-engineering-managers-write-code
- Finished date:: 2023-03-27
Highlights
If you’re a first-level engineering manager and directly managing engineers, it’s perfectly reasonable for you to still write code. However, this should be done carefully and in moderation. The guidance to avoid critical path work still applies. Your role is to be a communicator and facilitator, not a direct contributor to the work (View Highlight)
Most teams have ideas for new features or products that aren’t on the near-term roadmap. Or, there are new technologies like serverless or WebAssembly that no one has had time to explore to assess their applicability in your environment. These are opportunities to be the advance scout and ‘look ahead’ in these areas. Do some research, follow some tutorials, and build a small prototype to gain understanding. Then write up what you’ve done, what you’ve learned, and share with your team (View Highlight)