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Originally Posted by waterrockets
I just realized I've become the tech manager I that I dislike. I coach my daughter's lego robotics team and they have been meeting 1/wk for an hour to build the robot. It's going too slowly, so I added a two-hour session every weekend.

Wonderful. Six 10-year-old girls are on their first software development death march. "Yeah, I'm gonna need everyone to work 3x as many hours, and come in on the weekend until this robot is done."
You gonna chair the code reviews?
Process the change orders?
Oversee the regression and load tests?
Manage the repository?

Cool. Just don't step over the line to micromanagement.
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