About a year ago I transitioned into management. I changed my role from Senior Software Developer to Engineering Lead in Zalando. In this post I want to share my experience, good and bad, things that went well, where I screwed up and what I’m taking from it. A difficult first year Link to heading As my manager put it in my performance review: the last year was one of my most challenging ones. And he was right. In theory my game plan was pretty simple: I became Engineering Lead for the team ...
