Re:A study finds that bosses can be useful but also sneaky
by muzani on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:08AM
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To use a RPG analogy, managers tank for the team. They produce visibility little output. Their job is to keep the team focused on what they do.
Without a manager, team members need to justify a $5 expense to finance, deal with back and forth iterative design with product team, argue that the hardware partner isn't delivering what they promised, deal with security expectations from bigger partners. There's a lot of unnecessary meetings in there and you don't want the people doing the work to be in them.
Without a manager, the CEO sits next to your back end guy, rants about bugs that the guy is already fixing, and pokes him for update schedule progress every four hours.
It is possible for middle management to get bloated, but this is sort of a response like we have too many meetings, therefore we need more people to handle meetings.
Without a manager, team members need to justify a $5 expense to finance, deal with back and forth iterative design with product team, argue that the hardware partner isn't delivering what they promised, deal with security expectations from bigger partners. There's a lot of unnecessary meetings in there and you don't want the people doing the work to be in them.
Without a manager, the CEO sits next to your back end guy, rants about bugs that the guy is already fixing, and pokes him for update schedule progress every four hours.
It is possible for middle management to get bloated, but this is sort of a response like we have too many meetings, therefore we need more people to handle meetings.