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Dad has the chops to be a project manager. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Non-technical project managers are the worst lol

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

I think it depends. I've had a non-technical PM and he was great. He knew he knew nothing about development and as such did what great managers do, create an environment where we could work as efficiently as we could. If we said it takes X amount of time he wouldn't try to squeeze out a faster deadline, he'd report "it will take X amount of time". If we said it's unreasonably to take feature Y in he'd say we're not going to take feature Y in.

IMO it's much harder with PMs who did some development 20 years ago and "know how things are done". The ones with some technical knowledge almost always butt in.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

I still think about how the project manager, the wife of the CEO, told me the icon she wants me to replace is about 2 inches, on a 17-inch monitor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait. Technical project managers exist?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

For the first year or so they become PMs they try.