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it's the opposite really, a good manager is rare because being a good manager is very very hard and takes an enormous amount of both study and experience. Being
by chasd00 6y ago
it's the opposite really, a good manager is rare because being a good manager is very very hard and takes an enormous amount of both study and experience. Being a good manager is like being a therapist for a dozen people with deadlines on mental health. The soft skills required cannot be acquired from reading the documentation.
- loopz 6y agoWhen the work is managed well there's never need for escalations, defusing, death marches and therapy.
- skohan 6y agoBut I think the parent comment's point is that this can be a very challenging job. A good manager's task is to absorb the chaos of the outside world, and give the team a calm, structured workflow. It's easy to see where a manager is failing, but if they're doing their job right their work is invisible.
- loopz 6y agoWhat is creating the chaos outside the "developer bubble"? Is progress well managed, or not. So we reward visible work. The higher flames in Ops the better, to not be invisible. This is why manager must have domain knowledge.