Re:Ask HN: Must a Senior Developer be proficient in design, ...
by brogrammernot on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:05PM
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You should have a base awareness of the tools that your team is using. It's the same for product managers, which is why some of the best product managers come from engineering backgrounds.
Do you have to be as good as your team members at their skills? No, of course not.
Going to be hard to justify hours, timelines and other managerial duties to the people that you report too as a manager if you don't know if your team is working efficiently.
Just my two cents.
Re:Ask HN: Must a Senior Developer be proficient in design, ...
by dassiorleando on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:18PM
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The major problem here is that looks like there are not really a developer team behind, but just the Senior Developer.
No designer and no others person who make good stuffs on photoshop or others grapic design tools.
Re:Ask HN: Must a Senior Developer be proficient in design, ...
by ythn on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:17PM
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"How long is this photoshop task going to take you?"
"A least a week"
Manager that knows little about photoshop: "OK"
Manager that is proficient in photoshop: "Really? Looked like a 2 day job to me"
That's the thing that gave me pause. Is that really a question that should be asked? If you're a manager you don't need to know your teams skills well do you? You just need to be a good manager, which is a skill, isn't it? So it seems like if someone is asking that question, maybe that's not a good sign. (I very well could be wrong on this, but my experience says I'm right)