From the course: Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager

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Assess tech skills outside your expertise

Assess tech skills outside your expertise

From the course: Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager

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Assess tech skills outside your expertise

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- With a large enough team or a long enough time managing, you'll eventually get the chance to manage someone whose technical skillset just doesn't overlap with yours. This can be an exciting chance to learn about technical topics outside your understanding, but it can provide unique challenges for a manager. How can you best assess their skills and how do you know when they'll need more support? You can do it with thoughtfulness and maybe a little help. Managers don't need to be able to do the job of every team member, but you should have enough understanding of their work to describe their role and describe most of their daily tasks. You can unhead this understanding to help them set good goals and to set your own expectations of their work and to accurately assess their work for reviews. If you don't have a good grasp of their working capabilities, you're not going to be able to effectively support them. If their…

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