--- title: Best Manager.dev posts — October 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Manager.dev posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton/best-of/2025/10 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton/best-of/2025/10 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Manager.dev posts — October 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Manager.dev posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Manager.dev — October 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-engineering-team-like-a-dungeon-party-mbuab2qup "Build your engineering team like a dungeon party") Article Manager.dev · 49w Build your engineering team like a dungeon party A framework for building balanced engineering teams using RPG dungeon party roles as a metaphor. The approach advocates for complementary skills over hiring only top performers, suggesting five archetypes: the warrior (senior problem-solver), the tank (reliable junior executor), the healer (people-focused and business-oriented), the wizard (architect/designer), and the rogue (versatile full-stack developer). Engineering managers should identify team gaps and adapt their own contributions to fill missing roles, whether that's handling small tasks, stakeholder management, or hands-on coding. 204 27 [See all Manager.dev archives](/sources/zaidesanton/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton/best-of/2025/10#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton/best-of/2025/10","name":"Best Manager.dev Posts — October 2025","description":"The most upvoted Manager.dev posts from October 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton/best-of/2025/10#items","numberOfItems":1,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-engineering-team-like-a-dungeon-party-mbuab2qup","name":"Build your engineering team like a dungeon party"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Manager.dev","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"October 2025"}]}]} ```