New manager from lead dev, am I micromanaging?
Hi everyone, I am a 15+ year developer, recently became a team lead/manager, because my previous manager left the company.
Recently I heard feedback (not directly from devs) that I micromanaged, unlike how the previous manager gave them freedom.
Background: I took on people management responsibilities, while continuing to work on high level dev work and guiding/mentoring the devs. I continue to do code reviews. Compare myself to our previous manager, he wasn't a developer, didn't understand the code and didn't do code reviews. In this way he gave freedom to developers to work on tickets. Our team consists of 1 junior, mids and seniors.
Is this an expected behaviour: from a developer to a manager? How much should i 'let go'? How do I communicate my style is different to my preview manager? If I see bad code that will likely cause a production incident, i shouldn't turn a blind eye, because eventually it will damage the dev team?
Thank you