Technical vs management career tracks (Venn diagram)

Josh Tyler
Management, The Art and The Science
1 min readAug 18, 2014

In recent conversations with some of the more senior engineers on my team, the topic of career development came up, especially as it relates to focusing on technical leadership vs. management. I tried to capture some of the differences, and overlap, in this quick diagram.

What do you think?

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Josh Tyler
Management, The Art and The Science

EVP Engineering and Design @CourseHero, changing the way people learn. Author, Building Great Software Engineering Teams. Views expressed here are my own.