3 ms·
> I believe it's because it's far harder to find people with good people skills than find people with good technical skills. I disagree emphatically. Good peo
by j_baker 16y ago
> I believe it's because it's far harder to find people with good people skills than find people with good technical skills.
I disagree emphatically. Good people skills are far more common than good technical skills. However, it is incredibly rare to find someone with both the technical skill and the people skill to be a technical manager.
- tobtoh 16y agoYes if you are taking about the general populace, I absolutely agree good people skills are far more common. However we're talking about BA/PMs in a technical company (at least that is my assumption given the original question) in which case there is already a pre-filtered environment of basic technical familiarity/knowledge. In this environment, good people skills and more specifically 'attitude' is a lot rarer than technical skills.
- j_baker 16y agoIt sounds like we agree except on the semantics. My point is: people skills = easy to find technology skills = more difficult to find technology skills + people skills = incredibly tough to find