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Measuring Manager Effectiveness -- Can You Even Quantify It? - Dev Leader Weekly 138

TL; DR:

  • Manager effectiveness is multidimensional -- technical, project, and people
  • You can't perfectly quantify it, but you can measure signals that matter
  • Balancing delivery with people management is the real challenge
  • I'm on-call this week -- no live stream. Sorry!

Can You Actually Quantify How Good a Manager Is?

A viewer recently asked me about how quantifiable manager skills are, and I think it's a genuinely fascinating question. We can all think of managers we've worked with and immediately categorize them -- "that person was incredible" or "that person was a nightmare." But putting numbers on why is a completely different challenge.

I wanted to break this down because I think it matters -- not just for evaluating managers, but for managers themselves who want to understand where they're doing well and where they need to invest more time.

You can check out my full thoughts on this in the video below:

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