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Simple: it's the job of a good line manager to embed and ingratiate themselves well enough with those doing the engineering work, that at any point they can giv
by bluepnume 4y ago
Simple: it's the job of a good line manager to embed and ingratiate themselves well enough with those doing the engineering work, that at any point they can give a reasonable estimate for how long a certain thing is going to take when asked middle or upper management. That is, WITHOUT adding extra process.
> I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: ‘A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’
- hef19898 4y agoI spend the majority of my career in SCM, not software development. Your comment is absolutely true in my opinion. A good line manager knows what's going on, any KPIs or dashboards just make it easier for a manager to know. Managers rellying on dashboards and reports only to know whats going on in their teams, have always teams oerforming sub par. And they aren't able to answer upper management questions any better.