Re: SLC project management

[Michael Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm wondering. What is the perception of the list participants? 
>Do you want your project managers to be involved with the coding? 
>Or do we cause enough problems without messing with your area 
>of expertise?

I've been exposed to two models:

1. Project manager has been coding all along; is familiar with code, 
the problem and the business.  Leader spends more time coding
than managing, and the paperwork falls through the cracks.

2. Project manager was a professional manager all along; not familiar
with the code, problem or even the business.  Called on to lend
her rusty skills to the work effort, writes obsolete, hard to 
maintain code and helps drag the project out even longer.

Given a preference, I'd take #1.  In Utopia, we'd have a technical
lead who would perform the programming and a manager to keep the
staff organised.  In reality, it seems that managers must divide 
their time between two chores; both tasks losing something in the
process.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net




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