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The study contains "examples and descriptions of best practices...details [that] make overarching principles, such as "empowers the team and does not micromanag
by csense 13y ago
The study contains "examples and descriptions of best practices...details [that] make overarching principles, such as "empowers the team and does not micromanage," more concrete..."
Their "concrete" example is given by an employee who says, "Early on in my role, [my manager] asked me to pull together a cross-functional team to develop a goal-setting process."
I can't think of anything more illustrative of why engineers to be dismissive of management than strings of abstract buzzwords that conveys little information, such as "Pull together a cross-functional team to develop a goal-setting process."
That's where I stopped reading.
- ojbyrne 13y agoEvery profession has jargon. I'd translate that into plain english as "stick a product manager and a designer in the same room with a couple of engineers and make sure that priorities are clearly managed at all times (as opposed to trying to enforce rigid deadlines from above).