Managing a Team is Managing your Time

Lightning Talk (5 min.)

As a first time team lead, I thought my biggest challenge was to learn how to manage people. Unexpectedly, I found myself fighting to stay afloat on a wild sea of project designs, code reviews and syncs. It took me a while to realize that my focus should be on my time, and on learning how to manage it. I developed a set of techniques that kept me sane, and stopped me from becoming a bottleneck for my team. In this lightning talk I'll share some tips for first time managers, as well as the personal tools I use for time management. If you're managing people or a project and struggle to find time to do everything you want to do, then this talk is for you.