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u/timfreund ยท 7 pointsr/cscareerquestions

Fortunately management is a skill that can be learned, just like development. The fact that you're trying to learn is a good sign. Rather than share specific bits of advice, I'm going to share some of the resources that helped me get up to speed.

I found the Manager Tools podcast and related information incredibly helpful when I made the jump into team leadership and management. Doing their version of One on One meetings helped me grow relationships with my team members, and the meetings helped me and my directs stay in tune with the work of the organization. A great place to start:

http://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics

Mark Horstman is one of the main guys at Manager Tools, and if you start listening, you'll quickly learn that The Effective Executive is his favorite book. I resisted reading it for years because I'm not an executive. I read it a few months ago, and I was silly to wait: if you're a "knowledge worker" or a manager of knowledge workers, you are an executive by Drucker's definition.

Another strong resource (and the first book I read on the subject) is Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald Weinberg.

And probably the most helpful book I've read in the last year: Communication Gaps and How to Close Them. Most of your hard problems won't be technical in nature: they'll be problems that arise due to missed or misunderstood communications. For instance, with the move from SVN to TFS, setting up TFS and importing your SVN repos is the easy part. Getting the few guys that aren't excited about the move to understand and embrace it will be the tricky part. Back to the Manager Tools guys, they have a phrase: "communication is what the listener does," and everybody listens in different ways. That's why successful changes usually involve repeated and varied communication.

Best of luck!