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I disagree, one of the best managers I had was a non-technical manager. He was able to guide me back on track when I was veering too far into the 'interesting
by imron 9y ago
I disagree, one of the best managers I had was a non-technical manager.
He was able to guide me back on track when I was veering too far into the 'interesting problem for the programmer, but not what the business is trying to solve' territory and also was able to clear obstacles out of the way to let me work on what it was I needed to be working on.
- piyush_soni 9y agoA technical manager could have done that as well, may be a little earlier than when it went "too far". Just my opinion.
- imron 9y agoMaybe, maybe not. I've had technical managers that weren't as good at that as this manager. Now I'm sure maybe there are technical managers who can do this well too, but it's not an exclusive trait to them and my point (and experience) is simply that being non-technical is not in and of itself a disqualifying factor for being able to manage technical people.