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I suspect it’s because we have very different experience. In my experience, only technical people who want to manage want to be managers–unless HR has screwed up the salary ranges. If the salary ranges don’t go high enough for technical staff to make a good living, they want to be managers to increase salary.
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Technical managers need an in-depth understanding of the process by which the technical staff can perform the work. That may well mean an experience in where coding can trip developers up, where testers might have blind spots, how to help business analysts talk to the people who have requirements and how to translate those requirements into user stories, and so on.
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• Provide effective feedback.
• Influence and negotiation skills.
• Problem solving and decision-making. Managers need to be able to solve problems and make decisions in the face of ambiguity.
• Delegation.
• Ability to manage things, such as projects or groups of tasks. Technical people don’t need supervisors; they need leadership, guidance, and effective decision-making, especially when faced with too many options or insufficient information.
• Ability to observe current state and choose another action to change state.

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