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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by user5994461 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:13PM (#24483753)
Project managers are very useful when there are clients and budgets to deal with, as in outsourcing and contracting shops.

The role is not as useful in tech companies where developers are working permanently. It's actually hurting collaboration across teams if you start budgeting projects and people tightly.

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by HenryBemis on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:14PM (#24487813)
The definition of PMI on what is a project: A project can be defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.

The Devs who are permanent employees and maintain a set codebase/application/etc do not fall into that. They know what to do, they have a defined Change Management/SDLC abd they are challenged into finding the technical solutio. The project management includes tracking the requirements, sequencing events, getting resources/contractors, etc.. A dev should be spending '8h' per day coding, not figuring out budgets and interviewing contractors. Of course different companies have different approaches, but ballpark and from experience I think my above writings are pretty valid.

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