Engineering managment fall into 10 differnt types of managment. Those that know binary and those that do not. Sadly it is extremly rare to find a manager who

Engineering managment fall into 10 differnt types of managment. Those that know binary and those that do not. Sadly it is extremly rare to find a manager who cant do 1/10th of your job and is actualy any good. If you advanced up the ranks then you know what to expect, when to expect it and how to deal with your staff, you learn how to deal with HR and the other boring stuff. If you are a manager and have never done the job of the people who you are managing then you know HR and the boring stuff realy well, but can so easily fail to support your staff fully. It's not realy even a fine balance, understanding what your staff do is extreemly important and at least to some degree a manager should know how to at least do aspects of there staffs job, to not know is a situation were you let your staff down or alows them to abuse you by saying it will take longer than it actualy does take. You then have those staff who are good at doing there work on email as apposed to actualy doing the work. So is Engineering managment dieing - has been for many years now but not for the reasons you outlined. I suspect that during the late 80's some marketing types migrated to IT managment and the rest is history.