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The Shameless Project Manager
Yet more proof that activity is no substitute for value.
Project Management, and its multitude of snake oil purveyors, is truly one of the grifts that keeps on giving (pun very much intended).
It rightly takes its place on the podium of irritation and frustration, standing up there right next to the likes of agile, LinkedIn, and Human Resources as one of the most inconsequential (in the grand scheme of things), yet resource consuming, wastes of time in the Grand Game of Software Engineering.
No wonder that the “AI” knives are out for it. Not that it needs current levels of “AI” to book meetings, shuffle Jira tickets, and fill in Excel based expense claims — all of that could be in an entry level bash script¹.
That aside, there’s one thing, one particular thing, that makes my blood boil on a regular basis from this particular demographic of the Grand Game.
Have you ever received one of those emails from the IT department, sent to “all” which in itself is a privilege usually reserved for HR’s indoctrination, sorry, welfare programs and warnings from buildings management about driving the correct way around the car park, concerning something vaguely technical yet dressed up in a way that management can probably understand it?
