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Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by daedalus_f on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:55AM (#27792755)
I have not worked in software development but I do work in healthcare. At least in my country, management of hospitals has largely been taken away from healthcare professionals and given to career managers whose background is usually administration, HR or finance. They largely display the same irritating traits as you describe and increasingly interfere in clinical decision making while remaining largely unaccountable - unlike everyone else who works in healthcare they have no professional standards body.

I think the wider problem is a conflation of administration and leadership and a tendency for healthcare professionals to not be good at the politics that comes with leadership positions.

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Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by vjdingdong on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:35AM (#27793263)
That's a pretty disfunctional state of affairs you describe in Health-care. A little bit like what we have in Tech. Where career managers/MBAs/PMPs control execution of projects with various levels of technical complexity - essentially Tech projects where the project succeeds inspite of the powers-that-be.
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Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by mmarq on Saturday July 10, 2021 @08:18AM (#27792860)
That may or may not be a problem. For instance a career manager may be better suited to make strategical decisions than practitioners.

I don't necessarily have a problem with a non-technical leadership or with non-technical people cooperating with the development team (the latter is often essential for the team to work on meaningful tasks). What I have a problem with is scrum masters, project managers and their like entering an operating theater to distribute candies and pizza, to ask people questions about an unassigned Jira card stuck in the "To Do" swimlane, and generally treat professionals with 10-20 years of experience as if they were a bunch of partially-socialized four-year-old children.

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