From Developer to managing technical people: a tale, lessons learnt (and how not to completely stuff it up)

A common career path for technical people is one of management - a skill set we don't all naturally possess. This is the tale of a developer who became a people and technical manager and before I knew it had an entire Product team (50+ people) I was responsible for and had no clue what I was doing: what went wrong, how did I make it right, what did I focus on, and how to turn teams into even more functional, high performance teams.