As you may know already, I recently changed my job. I'm starting to settle down at the new place. I'm meeting up with the people in my team (there are quite a few of them!) one by one. It, frankly, gave me a scare initially merely thinking about the prospect to manage over 20 people that belong to two different products. Being part of a technology driven company and as part of a very demanding industry, it is imperative that the team builds on its expertise and knowledge of the domain more than anything else. Not an easily achievable goal at all.
After I talked to the people, I feel that we're almost there. No exaggerations, but all the people are real good in their field of work. Team leaders swear by them. It is exciting to see the spread of aptitude, skills and experience within the team. Of all, the part I liked best is that most of them believe in creating their own challenges out of their otherwise routine jobs. Some do research work on relevant areas, some develop own automation frameworks and go on to automate a significant part of their work, some keep themselves busy training and giving presentations to the entire company on the team's technologies and domain, some work to develop newer strategies for testing, some contribute to developing better processes..I also started realizing the great learning potential ahead of me, both from a technology and a people management perspective. All this excites me and I eagerly look forward to contribute my lot to the team.
However, all this has significantly raised my responsibilities, much more than I'd imagined when I joined the company. Now, my hope is to be able to maintain the same spirit among the team members as it had been before. I know there are lots of challenges involved, but I hope to keep going and do my best...
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