Let's be honest: most project managers cause more problems than they solve. They would do stuff like downplaying all the problems and ship a broken game, or pu

Let's be honest: most project managers cause more problems than they solve. They would do stuff like downplaying all the problems and ship a broken game, or pulling developers into redundant meetings to waste their time. A software engineer that is proficient at memory management, multithreading, pathfinding, networking, graphics, linear algebra, computer science, data structures and algorithms, and all the other stuff involved in programming a game, doesn't want to listen to a person that not only doesn't understand any of that, but feels entitled to have an opinion on how tasks involving that should be triaged and executed, and sometimes are insufferable people obsessed with hierarchy and domination to compensate for not understanding things. Want your project to be fast? Get out of the way. Let engineers collaborate and figure it out. And most importantly, stop trying to see software projects through the perspective of oversimplification. Good project managers exist, but most are not. Hear it from Steve Jobs if you need to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj0hpsJvrko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj0hpsJvrko