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Your Project Manager Will Definitely Be Replaced By An “AI”
Though, even if it’s an actually useful one, it’s still very much a double-edged sword.
Pretty much everything a project manager says is, what I like to call at least, “content free” or what a non-software engineer would call “noise”.
This is primarily because of the fact that the more content free their speech is, then the less likely they are to be held accountable for the vast amount of ineptitude inherent in modern day corporate project management that they cause.
There’s that and the fact that, extremely often, they don’t really understand what they’re necessarily talking about — especially if it involves anything not written on a PowerPoint, illustrated a Gantt chart, or written in the title of a Jira ticket.
That, in itself is a remarkable skill if you think about it.
No doubt it’s in one of the founding modules at PMP¹ school under the rather Shannon-esque title of “removing all information from communications”, i.e. making it seem as if they’re saying something vital and important whilst remaining firmly on the “fence of decision”.
This is naturally, of course, whilst all the time waiting very carefully for developers to make a decision or invent something vital for a project, making out they thought of it…
