Re:The unspoken truth about managing geeks (2009)
by loopz on Sunday March 01, 2020 @04:59AM
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Instead of using straw-men, assumptions about where/who argument is from or downmodding, other strategies would be more constructive.
Re:The unspoken truth about managing geeks (2009)
by perl4ever on Sunday March 01, 2020 @09:38PM
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What? I didn't say anything about any of the above. "Someone might claim" is a euphemism for me, not a straw man.
A stuffed octopus is indeed something people (techies) use as a sounding board - and it works. You can explain your problems to anyone or anything and get surprisingly good results. I have used my manager this way. However, that's not the limit of what a manager can do.
You are saying the usefulness of a manager is the same as, say, a stuffed octopus. I think this is illustrative of a cultural gap. Someone else might claim that all of the interesting and challenging problems in business are management problems that technical people as such don't even acknowledge.