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Some mistakes I made as a new manager

Ben Kuhn · 23 Apr 2023

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  1. Manage projects according to the owner's level of task-relevant maturity.
  2. People with low task-relevant maturity appreciate some amount of micromanagement (if they're self-aware and you're nice about it).
  3. unmaintained infrastructure degrades more quickly, and is more expensive to fix in the long run.

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