I can't really comment on non-technical managers, as all of the management at my company are former (and current) developers. However, this list itself doesn't

I can't really comment on non-technical managers, as all of the management at my company are former (and current) developers. However, this list itself doesn't seem like a bad set of questions for a developer to ask themselves, let alone a manager ask the developer. We all know that it's all too tempting to fix the problem we want to fix, rather than the one that needs t obe fixed.