Dilemma working with skillful subordinates [closed]

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This is not a technical question but more to managing technical expectation to myself. Currently i am just along managing website (WP based), managing web services, do some web development works in this company. Some projects i need to outsource, manage the outsourcing until the project is complete. I am not a powerful PHP developer (i just have the basics), but i love Wordpress, so most of the project i use WP as the platform.

Even i am alone, i am quite happy because my work more to managing than doing the hard coding. But the time has come i need to grow this team, i have found skillful developer and designer to join my team. They are very skillful, have great portfolios.

My boss want me to find a great team so my team can grow. My dilemma now is i am afraid if i approve the new candidates to my team than maybe i will be removed f开发者_JAVA技巧rom the team sooner or later since i am not skillful as them, even i am more senior than them in this company.

On the other hand, i heard it is great to work with more skillful person as you can develop yourself faster.

Now i am stuck which way to choose.

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A good Project Manager has a different skill set than a good Developer. If you're better at keeping things organized, delegating tasks, and making sure tasks get done, then you'll be a fine PM. Developers like to have PM's who are developers, so that we don't have to explain the issues of programming.

It also makes good business sense to move someone in your position to a post where you wont be slowing down the progress of the project by mediocre programming skills; Instead, you'd be improving projects by keeping the communication channels open, and making sure each part gets taken care of.

Additionally, you might want to focus on your debugging skills so that you can help sort out code issues when a developer gets stuck. Simply acting as a sounding board is often enough to help most developers work through their problems.