Actually, the right question to ask is "what kind of manager would you like to be?"
Management comes in two flavors :
* technical management (think "architect" or "lead dev") is about expertise, experience, higher technical vision. You surely have some points to make here, not because you know the last tech fad, but because you know that every fad will fade in 6 or 12 months, and that only good engineering last
* team management is a COMPLETLY different beast: you won't work on code but you will work on humans and how to help them to fulfill their mission in the company. It's about psychology, finance, sociology, politics... Think budget, reporting, forecasting... It's really interesting too but has nothing to do with development.
If that's your interest (and it's a real focus change), then you can leverage every experience as a technical team leader on some part of system, and show how you improve THE TEAM (and how that improvement lead to a PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT)
Be very cautious: you should consider this as a career change. A lot of bad managers are managers that went down this road for wrong reasons (money, status...) and not because they want to develop the human side of corporation
Management comes in two flavors :
* technical management (think "architect" or "lead dev") is about expertise, experience, higher technical vision. You surely have some points to make here, not because you know the last tech fad, but because you know that every fad will fade in 6 or 12 months, and that only good engineering last
* team management is a COMPLETLY different beast: you won't work on code but you will work on humans and how to help them to fulfill their mission in the company. It's about psychology, finance, sociology, politics... Think budget, reporting, forecasting... It's really interesting too but has nothing to do with development. If that's your interest (and it's a real focus change), then you can leverage every experience as a technical team leader on some part of system, and show how you improve THE TEAM (and how that improvement lead to a PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT)
Be very cautious: you should consider this as a career change. A lot of bad managers are managers that went down this road for wrong reasons (money, status...) and not because they want to develop the human side of corporation