I hate to sound like a broken record. But I consider my skillset at 51 all of the things I said that involve getting from signed contract to happy customer at the end. I’m actually slowly working on moving even further up and becoming halfway competent at pre-sales.
You cdn substitute customer for “the business”.
When you step back “the code” is the smallest part. Once I learned how to take a holistic view of the entire system - I specialize in AWS architecture + app dev - including how to deal with people.
In enterprise dev - no one cares about the code - they care about functionality. They never cared about the code. In large tech companies they have to care about the code.
As a manager though, I bet you understand the architecture, the politics, the business, the security posture, the financial implications, etc of everything you are responsible for.
Wouldn’t you agree that your skillset is more valuable than your coders? Again with the assumption that you aren’t working in BigTech or equivalent where every optimization is at a scale that it matters.
You cdn substitute customer for “the business”.
When you step back “the code” is the smallest part. Once I learned how to take a holistic view of the entire system - I specialize in AWS architecture + app dev - including how to deal with people.
In enterprise dev - no one cares about the code - they care about functionality. They never cared about the code. In large tech companies they have to care about the code.