Ask HN: What makes a good IT Manager?

Re:Ask HN: What makes a good IT Manager? by otoburb on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:00PM (#1498762)

Can't you have two types of "good" IT managers? I know both types of great IT managers. If you forced me to choose from the two camps, I'd rather pick a manager with the better people, communication and organizational skills and lack of technical knowledge.

Somebody with the technical skills and a deficiency of people, communication and organizational skills will do more damage to the group than a manager with the inverse skill set.

Great managers from camp (1) are probably more effective, but seem to be harder to come by because they need to possess two sets of skills, rather than one.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes a good IT Manager? by perlsys on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:42PM (#1498879)

You assumed that people from camp (1) may have deficient people skills, and its fair to assume the extremes in this debate.

But what about the extreme of camp (2) isnt that just as bad, wouldnt a manager with deficient technical knowledge make ur life hell!!!

So if we exclude the extremes would u still pick camp (2) ???

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