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regarding 1), isn't there a danger that you can end up being seen as an admin monkey by the rest of the team leading to them undervaluing your technical knowledge?

I'm sure that they appreciate it, but that's not necessarily the same thing as it's good for the team in the long run.

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The trick is that then he is the throughput of his team into all the systems. So he can see if someone is having trouble with a bit of the code i.e. they haven't finished a part of the project. The Senior Dev can then pair code etc to help out. This will assuage the admin monkey syndrome when an answer comes up.

But the answer is brilliant cause it also gives him the ability to see what his team is working on and how they are working on it.

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