Engineering Middle-Management to become extinct?

You can&rsquo;t lead From hehind anymore. For twenty years the path to Engineering leadership had a well-worn groove: write code for a few years, get &ldquo;promoted out of&rdquo; writing code, spend the rest of your career managing budgets, headcount, and status reports. The further up you went the less technical you were expected to be, and nobody blinked. That era is over. Not ending. Over.