As a manager, many of your tasks are quite repetitive. With a few simple steps around these processes, you can start saving precious time.
As programmers, we’re accustomed to noticing patterns and abstracting them away for reuse throughout our applications. Thankfully, the same approach can also be used when you transition into management.
I manage teams of teams, so being very careful about how I use my time and setting up systems for myself are the difference between being organized at the beginning of every new day and being in a reactive state. Since I want to use as much of my daily mental capacity where it matters, I set up some reproducible patterns for myself and my teams, so I can spend my time where it counts.