One thing that's missing from this - your metric of success will change, and you'll have to navigate that.
As an IC you have a tangible representation of what you accomplished that day - the doohickey now spins, the bloop now boops when you tap it, the clicky thing now does the clickity click.
In your first weeks as a manager you're going to look at your little box of accomplishments, find it empty, and you're going to ask yourself, "I didn't ship anything, am I doing the right things?". You will have to change what you qualify as an accomplishment, otherwise you'll long for the simplicity of attributing your success to the number of PRs merged or bugs fixed that week.
Intangible tangibles will become your potent potables, and that's OK.
As an IC you have a tangible representation of what you accomplished that day - the doohickey now spins, the bloop now boops when you tap it, the clicky thing now does the clickity click.
In your first weeks as a manager you're going to look at your little box of accomplishments, find it empty, and you're going to ask yourself, "I didn't ship anything, am I doing the right things?". You will have to change what you qualify as an accomplishment, otherwise you'll long for the simplicity of attributing your success to the number of PRs merged or bugs fixed that week.
Intangible tangibles will become your potent potables, and that's OK.