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One of his points is that if you have a full time manager, this manager will make sure to do managerial stuff for 40 hrs a week, even if, for the team's success
by serial_dev 2y ago
One of his points is that if you have a full time manager, this manager will make sure to do managerial stuff for 40 hrs a week, even if, for the team's success, you only need 10 hours.
In my experience this is true, managers who don't have enough legit stuff to do are the biggest time wasters because they want to appear busy and indispensable.
- icedchai 2y agoYep. I was in a team of 3 devs with a “full time” manager. At best it was a 20% job. I’ve managed much larger teams myself. The guy was “supposed to be technical” and help out with low priority dev tasks. All he did was go to meetings and have useless 1:1s.
- chiefalchemist 2y agoIt would still make sense to have a single manager that also makes then to have multiple mentors each kinda faking the managing part.