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> Once you’re coordinating groups of people you need a manager to keep them working together towards a common goal. What is a manager? I've worked on many suc
by sheepmullet 9y ago
> Once you’re coordinating groups of people you need a manager to keep them working together towards a common goal.
What is a manager?
I've worked on many successful teams (including projects with 100+ devs) without formal managers in the typical hierarchy sense.
You just need a combination of program managers, project managers, product managers, and architects.
- mcphage 9y agoSo you’ve worked on successful teams without managers—they just had... managers, managers, managers, and architects?
- sheepmullet 9y agoThe individual tasks a manager does are important - my point is they can be handled under many different roles. All of those roles are quite different from the traditional manager - for example none of those "managers" had strong authority over the developers day to day work the way a manager typically would. Nor did they speak on behalf of the developers.