Effectively managing your team whilst retaining your technical know-how may seem like an impossible juggling act. But there are some things you can do to polish up your skills.
If you’re worried about becoming hands-off as a manager and losing your technical edge, I feel you. When it happened to me I felt the lack of hands-on, tangible experience with my team’s code very keenly, and went through a year of mourning and regret for the loss.
Now, many years later, I‘ve managed to overcome the fear of losing my edge, and I am confident that I’ve successfully stayed technical through all these years of not writing code.