Generally agree, except for: 10. Has a very good understanding of stack/technology/project you are working on A manager doesn't need to understand details of t

Generally agree, except for: 10. Has a very good understanding of stack/technology/project you are working on A manager doesn't need to understand details of the stack etc, for example they can delegate those decisions to tech leads or senior people. Manager does need to know enough tech to detect BS though! They need to be sufficiently aware of overall process to avoid counter productive measurements such as lines of code or some such (happened to me way back when). One of my best managers, on a real crunch project, focussed on recruiting a great team, and then he ran high level interference and let us get on with it.