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The manager should also be a developer. So stay

• BigZaphod 17y ago
  I had a manager that was also a developer and it was horrible. It's likely he was just a bad manager; by virtue of being a developer he felt he had a certain justification to micromanage the hell out of everyone.
  • JulianMorrison 17y ago
    "Boss" might be better handled by an MBA, but "project manager" urgently needs at least a little coding experience. If you don't have a gut feel for the work, your estimates will be noise and you won't be able to protect the developers from irrational imposed deadlines.
    • btilly 17y ago
      Only a bad project manager will assign time estimates. A good project manager armed with a detailed breakdown of work and reasonable time estimates from the developer is able to push back on irrational imposed deadlines. In a perfect world I'd go on and say that good management won't try to motivate by deadline. But unfortunately this one is so imperfect that that particular stupidity is common. But it is common sense that a person who does not understand the work to be done in detail is unable to accurately estimate it.