| Essay 44 | Respect Your Project Manager |
If you’re a developer who’s worked with project managers before, I can say with 99 percent assurance that, at one time or another, you’ve been frustrated with them. While you’re tackling a complex feature head on, here the PM is, with the nerve to ask you when you think that might be finished. While you’ve spent hours dissecting a deep, mission-critical problem in your code, here the PM is, nudging you to get that trivial button label fixed. And here the PM is again, asking you whether you can get that new client feature request that just came in out of the blue completed today.
You know the feeling. Deep inside of you, you believe the PM isn’t doing much. He’s simply asking you when, how, and if you can. ...
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