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For many developers, they turn out to be good at project management, its not much different conceptually than being an architect, this issue is, once you 'level
by Aloha 8y ago
For many developers, they turn out to be good at project management, its not much different conceptually than being an architect, this issue is, once you 'level up' you're expected to stay there, rather than moving back to develop for some period of time, and letting the next guy get tapped for project management - It think more companies rotated those roles around, they'd see greater retention, greater employee happiness, and probably lower costs - as an engineer, I don't want to be a PM forever, but I might be happy spending 1/3rd of my time over a given long term period wearing that hat.
- orthoxerox 8y ago> its not much different conceptually than being an architect I don't know where you are from, but in my experience the roles are very different. As an architect you have to provide technical guidance over a domain that you know like the back of your hand. As a PM, you have to manage a project that straddles multiple domains, some of which are completely alien to you, and you are explicitly limited by the scope, deadlines and your budget. As a PM, you have to trust (and goad) multiple experts if you want to get anywhere.