I've never been able to break into management and now I'm 40. Compared to most programmers I'm personable and outgoing. Getting a leg up into management is very difficult. In 13 years as a programmer I've never worked with anyone who achieved it. Don't bank on it being possible. If you want to get into management you need to take radical action. Don't drift along like I did and be bitterly dissapinted that you're stuck in development probably forever, like I did.