Ask HN: What book or media resource would you recommend on team management?
I'm currently like a "team lead" (not officially yet) and I am very young. Part of my daily duty is work closely with my supervisor, manage our JIRA queue, and handle requests coming from business and developers (I work as a DevOps). I am now considered "escalation" in my team so I can spend more time on management and other major engineering efforts underway. I absolutely love what I do: the kind of opportunity I am given (judging by my title and experience) blows people's mind.
I don't think I am terrible at being the person doing management work. That being said, I am beginning to feel the pain to
1) having a good oversight with what people are working on, and keeping track of their progress (we use Jira, but still doesn't yield the best result I hope)
2) prevent my team from being overloaded (i.e. prioritize tickets)
3) maintain a good level of autonomy in my team
I just proposed to have a daily stand-up, and we will start that next week (it worked quite well with my previous team).
What lessons did you learn when you first start to manage a team? Are there any book or media resource that have helped you become a better manager? The rest of my small team are distributed, remote workers.
Thank you!