Why is the transition from IC Engineer to Manager so tricky (and how to get it right)? — Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma
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How to Set Reasonable or Unreasonable Expectations for Your Team
If the team is completely freaked out, you can sense that as a manager. It almost doesn't matter if the answer is yes or no, because what you're doing is opening up the space to have a further dialogue about it. Sometimes there are really great answers there. People might just be saying like, oh, my estimate didn't take into account the beacon period or the beta period or testing. And that's an opportunity to sort of revise that. Let's do a better job of taking into account all the things that are involved in estimation.
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