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How so?
by eplatzek 2y ago
How so?
- MonkeyClub 2y agoThe people they would manage are getting fired, so they're also becoming redundant by consequence.
- switch007 2y agoProject managers typically manage projects, not people
- toomanyrichies 2y agoSure but projects don't complete themselves.
- K0balt 2y agoNot with that attitude they won’t. I once worked in a company where one of my colleagues actively created phantom projects for his department, oversaw them, checked off metrics, went to meetings, and “deployed” solutions for capabilities that the company already had but had forgotten about. He once confided to me that he hadn’t actually made anything in over a decade. He still works there, 15 years later.
- toomanyrichies 2y agoI salute your colleague's silent resistance to wage slavery.
- ativzzz 2y agoProject management tooling is strong and you need a lot less time for the logistics of managing a project, so the responsibility got absorbed into other roles. From my experience, project management in tech is done partly by product managers, engineering managers, and tech leads