Programming and Managing - Can you do both?
It is fair to say that trying to program and manage is not for everyone. But given that you are a programmer who now has management responsibilities how do you handle both? What I hope in this article is to show you that it is possible to do both and to improve your efficiency of both and that the roles can be very complimentary.
It is fair to say that trying to program and manage is not for everyone. In fact a large percentage of programmers are not suitable to management roles and most rightly see management as something which would require them to give up all morals and learn to speak a different language (e.g. say ‘pro active’ every other word). This is partly due to the fact that management (on the whole) positions get filled by people who understand social structures and a lot of programmers (especially some of the most talented ones) do not fall into this bracket.
But given that you are a programmer who now has management responsibilities how do you handle both?
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