> Architecture review, product strategy, ensuring knowledge transfer and robustness to turnover, developing hiring plans, and ensuring your people are set up for success and are set up for career growth
Of this list, I would say only product strategy is leading. The rest is managing. Of course one role could and often does have elements of both. But leading means making decisions, rejecting some things and advocating for other things. Leaders have their butts on the line for their decisions. Managers are more the implementors of what the leaders decide.
Of this list, I would say only product strategy is leading. The rest is managing. Of course one role could and often does have elements of both. But leading means making decisions, rejecting some things and advocating for other things. Leaders have their butts on the line for their decisions. Managers are more the implementors of what the leaders decide.