kpithrowaway

I really liked this answer. Thank you.

This is exactly how I've seen it - but I suppose the book was just very pessimistic.

People always like to point out the management-free organization that is Valve...but I think a lot of my anxiety around my servant leadership aspirations is that most of my friends are developers that are trying to convince me that I'd be more valuable as a coder...

...but as I've acted as an advocate for my team as a team lead, I've gotten a lot of good feedback. Everyone else seems to think I'm a good manager (at the team lead level) so I'm probably just stressing about a potential career change :)

Thanks!

That's fair.

Exactly the kind of measurement I'd like to avoid. Same thing with velocity. If that's the metric, it makes you want to bloat estimates, create additional tickets with lots of points, and you are insensitivized into avoiding helping eachother out because it doesn't help your individual points.