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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago

You say that until the first time you join a team with multiple projects to accomplish and zero project or program management. It sucks. Badly.

I pine for very excellent PMs I’ve known.

I had a manager once with a powerful knack for hiring great ones. The only problem was that each and every one of them got poached for upper management in the business.

[–] [email protected] 255 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

A good project manager is worth their weight in gold. Large scale projects are complex and have lots of moving parts. Someone who understands this and is good at keeping all the "parts" moving while heading off any potential issues is extremely valuable.

The problem is that often the people doing the hiring don't know what it takes to run a large project, much less what good project management looks like. They just hire some idiot with an agile certification whose only skill is moving items around a kanban board in a way that gives the illusion that progress is being made.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

Yeah, as a General Foreman in construction I would be up to my eyeballs in nonsense without my PM.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

This is the correct take.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Dependencies! Deliverables! Blockers!

Put me in coach, I'm ready!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’ve literally always described my job as babysitting

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I need to be babysat, otherwise, how do I know what to do? And trust me, you do not want me working on whatever I just find interesting.

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