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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by Spooky23 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:35PM (#14383432)
That's why coding managers is dumb.

The army figured it out. The Officers are in charge, but the sergeants get shit done. In engineering, your leads/supervisors are the sergeants.

Officer quality varies between complete shitbird and Julius Ceasar. Either way, the army marches.

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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by dismantlethesun on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:26PM (#14383615)
Sound like tech leads are sergeants and project managers are officers.
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Re:Engineering management lessons (2014) by Spooky23 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:36PM (#14383659)
That's where the analogy breaks a bit. Where I work, PMs don't "own" people, just deliverables.

Their main weapon is pestering you.

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