Overcoming self-doubt and enabling technical leadership on projects

Over the past few months I’ve been a part of a small team enacting sweeping technical process change in an organization I’ve worked with long-term. I’ve worked closely with developers and the tech lead to establish and enforce technical and project standards. Through doing this, we’ve increased the quality of our development work, but it’s also shed light on how many gaps exist in my knowledge of the development process itself. Mitigating the mental realization that I know much less about the technical details of the development process than I thought I did is difficult at times—and can lead to self-doubt towards my role as a freelance project manager. Right now, I work closely with small agencies and understaffed in-house…

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