Has it ever happened to you that you are a good developer but suddenly you need to lead a team or are responsible for some PM activities as well? Did you find that it affected your productivity? How did you handle it?I love my job, but I sometimes feel I was much happier as a programmer and the additional burden of being a Project Manager is currently affecting my productivity as a developer. What do you guys suggest as remedies to this? I do not have an alternative currently to quit from my job - basically because Im working for a startup that I co-founded.
Does double-shifting as a PM affect your developer-productivity?
productivity;project management
I think that it's impossible to quickly shift from PM mode to Dev mode.I'm teamleader in my normal job and programmer for a website during the nights. When I become teamleader I tried to keep contributing with the code, but I soon discovered that it was impossible. The new responsibilities required me to speak with people or check emails several times in a hour, impossible to write code in that condition.So now when I have some spare minutes at work I started to seat with someone of the team, especially with junior, and try to help him/her.I saw that this is increasing team productivity overall probably more than if I could spend some time writing code.