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Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by zmmmmm on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:08PM (#20727991)
> I feel managers, directors, etc. who cannot code should not be managing, either.

Somewhere, in a different forum there is a bunch of managers discussing an article where a project has completely failed because some completely naive engineers made a bunch of rookie management mistakes, pissed off half their employees and crashed the whole project.

And they are busy saying "Engineers who don't know anything about management shouldn't be managing stuff..."

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Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by siggen on Sunday August 18, 2019 @07:52AM (#20729661)
:-) I am not convinced engineers cannot be trained to also be great managers. A lot of managers were devs in the past choosing to take management roles to increase salary and forsake programming to satisfy rules implemented in their environment. Forsaking dev work is a mistake.

Management is not something complex. Almost all of management is expectations management.

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