Managing people, managing emotions.

Recently, I had the opportunity to manage a group of 10 developers in my company. You can consider it as a functional job role promotion for me to become a team lead, after my 8 years of career. But having said so, this new position leaves me with ambivalent feelings and thoughts.

I'm quite content and motivated with the new experience I will be gaining for managing the scope of the project, and also interaction with the rest of my team and management. But on the same time, I am also starting to feel pressurize with the paper work required, communication with surrounding people and team mates and  also political wars among the management. Even tho my project manager and team are quite supportive and kept motivating me, things don't always goes the way I'm targeting.

Lets start off with an introduction for my team. My team consist of individuals with different nationality, similar age group as me,  and had formed a few cliques between them. But in general, we do communicate well with each other, and had already built a layer of trust between each other. Most of them do show support and kindliness towards me, and had accepted me as someone who can lead them to a better future. Disagreements do happens from time to time, but can usually be resolve on the spot, without hard feelings and grudges. From time to time, I try to boardcast an impression that I'm not a authoritative person, and I'm just like anyone here but with additional responsibility. My ideal goal towards the team is everyone work together like a family, and reduce the amount of overtime required.

Enough for my humble team, lets go on to my management. The environment we are living in are comparable to the open sea with unknown danger and threat. Everyone is trying to prey and defense against the surrounding be  survivors, and you will be easily devoured if you are not careful enough. Well, it's just my current  perspective on the environment,  and I may not seen the whole picture.

Well that's all for now, I'll continue to post the outcome and stories I encounter.