Artifact: IC-to-Manager Mindset Memo — Priya's First Week

A newly promoted manager's first-week memo naming stopped habits and their replacements -- exercises co-01. Everline and every name here are fictional; every quote is an illustrative, constructed example.

What I'm stopping: personally taking the hardest, most interesting tickets in every sprint planning session -- for years, that was the fastest way for me to add value, and it's the reflex I have to consciously override now. I'm also stopping being the default code reviewer on every pipeline-critical PR; I was the fastest reviewer on the team, but that made me a bottleneck nobody could see until I was out sick for two days last month and three PRs sat untouched.

What replaces it: instead of taking the hard ticket myself, I name who on the team is closest to ready for it and pair with them on the design, not the implementation. Instead of reviewing every pipeline-critical PR myself, I'm asking Jordan and Maya to be the primary reviewers for that path, and I review their reviews occasionally, not the code directly.