Brad Armstrong lays it all out there about how to transition from an engineer to a manager:

There are decades of books and thousands of blogs dedicated to trying to answer these questions, so I‘m not here to pretend that I’ve got the secret to success. But I do know a few ways that I’m pretty sure can guarantee you’ll fail.

He takes you through 8 easy steps to failure. I’ll disappoint you now and spoil that step 1 is to keep coding 😱