---
title: "Confessions of a First Time Manager"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/confessions-of-a-first-time-manager.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/confessions-of-a-first-time-manager.html"
published: "2009-12-14T19:32:48+00:00"
updated: "2011-04-04T22:39:50.567000+00:00"
tags: ["Link Love"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A link to Tim Barcz's post on devlicio.us, in which a newly appointed manager of a large group of people shares his advice for first-time managers."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Confessions of a First Time Manager

[Tim Barcz](http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/) just became a manager of a large group of people. [And he’s got some advice for you](http://devlicio.us/blogs/tim_barcz/archive/2009/12/12/confessions-of-a-first-time-manager.aspx)!

## Read next

- [Other blogs on management and leadership](https://www.5whys.com/articles/other-blogs-on-management-and-leadership.html): A short list of recommended blogs and podcasts on software management and leadership, including Rands in Repose, Noop, Scott Berkun and Manager Tools.
- [9 Articles from Joel On software for Tech Leads](https://www.5whys.com/articles/9-articles-from-joel-on-software-for-tech-leads.html): Nine Joel on Software articles for tech leads, on task switching, three management methods and evidence based scheduling, and why Joel is worth reading.
- [3 Quotes about Leadership we should listen to](https://www.5whys.com/articles/3-quotes-about-leadership-we-should-listen-to.html): Three leadership quotes shared on Twitter, from Christopher Columbus on courage, Henry Ford on faster horses and Peter Drucker on efficiency.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/