Project Managers Do Us All A Favor And MANAGE!

Teach, Listen, SUPPORT!

What I want is those men to have someone to look up to, someone they know will be there to pick them up if they fall. I’ve got eight weeks to teach these idiots what it took you twenty years to learn on the streets.

One of the biggest problems I’ve seen in the decade and some change I’ve been freelance consulting accessibility and efficiency is an utter, total, and complete lack of leadership skills amongs so-called “senior” developers and “project managers”. You would think the title “project manager” might imply some need to… I dunno… MANAGE? But no.

I’ve lost count of the number of alleged “managers” I’ve dealt with who I’ve had to tell higher ups (owners, presidents, board members) to fire, demote, or move laterally because they aren’t managing anything more than their own prick. They spend three hours a day in meetings, three hours a day organizing for the next meeting, and the rest of their day at work playing crappy shovelware indie mobile games or spanking their crank to PornHub.

In a lot of ways many of the tools, technologies, and legitimate techniques end up at fault. Well maybe not at fault, but as a means of enablement.

Take AGILE and SCRUM… completely useful and legitimate techniques to aid in managing and planning products. BUT, so many people devoid of leadership skills use them as crutches to cover up for laziness and ignorance; sick-buzzword bullshit bingo to make their bosses think they know what they’re talking about; and justification for even more…