[physicsguy]

I’m only 3 months into the same journey but having difficult conversations up front I’ve already learnt is really important. There’s also a way of framing it. For e.g. “I need you to” rather than “you are not doing this and it’s a problem”

For e.g. there’s a developer on my team who my boss managed previously and gave the impression that being a senior dev was not a huge amount of work and he could reach that milestone by Christmas. My boss was very hands off because he had something like 20 reports plus a full time software engineering manager job and contract shit to deal with.

I took over the team started managing him and it became very obvious very quickly that he wasn’t at the same standard as our other senior devs. So I had to make it clear very quickly that for e.g. this is a rough skills matrix of what we expect for each level and you can do the coding OK, but you don’t seem able to write tests for your language of choice, and you often start randomly working on things that we’ve not agreed in the sprint, etc. etc.