Crash Course in Tech Management
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Argues that management is a craft with three concrete duties: get things done, manage people, and make informed technical/business decisions. Recommends explicit expectations with stated consequences, feedback given immediately and feedback like a bug report (who, when, what, why), phase changes iteratively, protect team time, minimize meetings, run code reviews/read diffs to stay technical, mentor and train broadly, and aim to make yourself dispensable so the team runs well without constant oversight.
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