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Understanding the manager's role on a technical team

Understanding the manager's role on a technical team

From the course: Managing and Working with a Technical Team for Nontechnical Professionals

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Understanding the manager's role on a technical team

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- Let's talk a little bit about managing a technical team or project, especially for the manager with a non-technical background. Now the first rule about management, you are not there to do production work. Your primary responsibility is managing the people on the team. Now this can be especially challenging for people who've risen up through the ranks. You're used to doing the work. You may have gotten promoted because you do the work so well. But the job of a manager is fundamentally different from that of a line worker. Now, there are a lot of people with courtesy manager titles. They don't really manage anyone, it's more just a signifier of their seniority or expertise. I've had a few of those titles myself, and obviously, if you're not managing people, you're producing work. But real managers who have people reporting to them have a larger scope than just their own work. They're responsible for the success of the team as a whole. Now this means not just keeping an eye on task…

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