When you say that to developers, but I usually give them the advice to learn sales and marketing. People ask me this question from time to time and… what advice would you have? One of the things that I sometimes answer and it’s a little bit purposely controversial. So I’ve definitely went through the… I’m an individual developer working in my basement on an Open Source project and then seeing Drupal take off and see Acquia take off. That actually taught me quite a bit about management, but I also started a company called Acquia, build around Drupal and that has grown to over a thousand people actually. I don’t know if it’s universal for every developer that transitions into a manager, but I’ve done a couple of different things, right? So maybe I can you a little bit of the context first, but I was an engineer by education and then ended up started an Open Source project called Drupal, which actually has grown to be one of the larger Open Source projects in the world. What do you think are some of the biggest challenges maybe that developers and engineers, coders face when they transition from a coder to someone who manages people and projects?ĭries Buytaert: Yeah. From coder to a project manager lead and eventually now to an executive position, right? I mean, maybe most devs won’t become a CTO or co-found a company like you have, but they do make that transition from daily coding into management. How to overcome the challenges of moving into engineering managementīill Detwiler: So Dries, you’ve taken a career path that I think many develops and engineers take. But he’s also the founder and CTO of Acquia, a company that offers software and services built around Drupal and has been recognized as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. As the founder and project lead of Drupal, Dries has certainly written a lot of code. On this episode of Dynamic Developer, I talkd with someone who’s made the jump from coder to software engineering leader, Dr. Successfully transitioning from writing code everyday to managing projects and people, can be a challenge and takes skills that not everyone starts off with, but can learn and develop over time.
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