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Re:Developers can't fix bad management (2020) by jpseawell on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:24AM (#27461130)
I definitely agree that (in general) devs and mgmt do not understand one another.

I think this is bc one practices abstraction while the other practices persuasion.

I see these two forces as equal and opposite. A yin and yang kind of thing.

It appears that the best orgs have these two things in balance.

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Re:Developers can't fix bad management (2020) by warkdarrior on Thursday June 10, 2021 @05:35PM (#27466150)
How are abstraction and persuasion "equal and opposite"? They seem to be completely orthogonal activities.
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Re:Developers can't fix bad management (2020) by jpseawell on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:22PM (#27468262)
My idea is that the skills required to build things are at odds with the traits/skills required to persuade.

My cherry picked list:

Building: honesty, introversion, reason Selling: charisma, extroversion, empathy

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