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The thing is that people on here think project managers are evil incarnate and just useless middle management. It requires a very specific skill set to be able
by theshrike79 2y ago
The thing is that people on here think project managers are evil incarnate and just useless middle management.
It requires a very specific skill set to be able to lead a technical project and cut through the bullshit on BOTH SIDES: the client asking for features and the team building the product.
Clients always either ask for stuff they don't really need or have vague requirements that crystallise only 3 days after the deadline. "Of course when we said it needs to do foo, it also MUST do bar, doh!"
And teams tend to overestimate their ability to deliver and underestimate the work needed to get to the finish. (Infinite coast problem).
- q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 2y agoThere's also several more classes of B.S., for what it's worth. An exaggerated/anonymized version of a recent one I got, from an otherwise-really-strong senior engineer: "Of course when I said we would put a button there, it also meant we MUST build an entire UI framework from scratch, with full test coverage for the entire thing!" ...actually, that's not even that exaggerated. Shipping software at big companies can be unreasonably difficult, sometimes.
- theshrike79 2y agoYea, I've had the privilege of working with a few _excellent_ project managers (or Producers as they're called in gaming) and they work literal magic. I've studied project management, I've managed projects and lead teams, but holy crap those people are on a whole other level with how well they gather and disseminate information and communicate it effectively. None of them could code themselves out of a wet paper bag, but that's not the skill they get hired for.