Managers for developers are not needed anymore due to new work, agile and autonomous teams. Isn’t it true? In such an environment every individual and every cross-functional team works magically together and solve their challenges independently and produce perfect software. They always have the right answers to any question and there is no duplicate work done, right?

At least that’s what the books tell us. So why on earth should someone talk about how to become a manager in IT. The answer is simple. In my opinion, it simply doesn’t work without managers in companies with more than a few developers. Mainly the role description of a manager changed. Today the managers are not working top-down anymore and dictate what to build and how. Instead, they are coaches, sparring partners and available for pair programming. They even have time to do some coding themselves.

Today I’d like to show you what the new IT manager role looks like and how this helps the teams to perform even better and align on regular bases. We at better ventures group don’t call them manager anymore but Chapter Leads not to confuse the roles.

## What you will learn from this talk
- that traditional team lead or manager position is not working anymore that good.
- how today's manager role looks like.
- what the tasks are and how much fun it actually is.
- how to create an environment where strangers become brothers and sisters.

## Why should you accept this talk
This is a brand new session I’d love to prepare for your conference. I’ll show the pros and cons of becoming a manager in an agile environment with cross-functional teams and that it is less managing and more coaching/supporting. Less a top-down than a bottom-up way of working. Plus I want to explain that being a good leader is more like being a father of a big group of brothers and sisters. They fight, they bicker but they all stand together when it is needed.