Technical Management is Not Real Management



Being a manager of a technical team is harder than regular management because of the balance required to be both a leader and contributor. In this episode, Zoe Rose, Dominik Pickhardt, and David Penaloza join Tom Hollingsworth to discuss the challenges of being a manager of a technical team. They talk about promoting good talent into management and the shift in thinking required to be a team leader and not just a high performer. They also discuss the soft skills needed to be a good manager and how those can be developed through training.

Panelists

David Penaloza Seijas

@DavidSamuelPS

Network engineer passionate about learning, sharing and hugging, and with an uncanny ability to over-speak.

Dominik Pickhardt

@NetworkAutobahn

InfoSec veteran on the NetworkAutobahn

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.

Zoë Rose

@RoseSecOps

Zoë Rose is a single mum and highly regarded hands-on cyber security specialist. Zoë focuses on building a secure by design and by default approach, in order to embed security resilience across the organisation.