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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by civilized on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:23PM (#33846929)
In my company, the project manager is essentially just there to report progress to management.

Why is it necessary to report progress to management? I'm not sure; as far as I've seen, nothing is ever done with the information, except to propagate it further up the chain. I can only speculate that, without progress reporting, management would seem to have too little work to do to justify its headcount.

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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by kenjackson on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:40PM (#33848222)
If you don’t known what is done with reports on progress, you probably shouldn’t comment on such things and should instead go find out.
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by AstralStorm on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:02AM (#33853780)
Usually what is done with that information is scheduling or sales. Typically overly optimistic scheduling or selling a thing one does not possess (a future).
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