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Basically an article from a dev trying to portrait herself as a good prospective manager by writing about things that have been repeated ad-nauseam.

>The services of a good leader is an important gap that development teams desperately need filled. However, very few managers know how to properly serve software development teams.

And of course the author knows.

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>And of course the author knows.

Author here, I don't actually know, I'm still learning.

But I know that by observation most of my peers are truly ignorant and just winging it.

Fixing that would make life better for everyone.

>Author here, I don't actually know

Why are you writing authoritatively about something you know you don´t actually know then?

Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.

My take away was that the author doesn't necessarily claim to have all the answers here. It's more of a list of general guidance that is reverse engineered from the type of behavior the she observed was definitely unsuccessful.

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