Aaron Lerch talks a bit about what it takes to be a technical manager. He enumerates five characteristics that he feels are essential for a technical manager (personally, I think that they are better classified as skills because they’re learnable and improvable). Here’s his five:
Communication
Technical Savvy
Organizational Skills
Priorities
Humility
It’s a good list for the good times, I think. As long as things run more or less smoothly, a manager with those traits will be in good...