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I invited the team members for a short meeting. We quickly went through the stuff they were doing, I pointed out a few risks in their priorities, gave some pointers as to what the solution might look like, and told them to buzz off so I could fly back up to my magic orbs and vials. A couple of days later I descended again to check on their progress, and we went through the same procedure.

I never wanted to be a full-time manager, so I turned myself into a one-minute manager.

Some time later, after the project manager had returned, I was quite surprised to hear from a team member that they had preferred my management style over the way the project manager was managing the team.

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management activies are as much fun as being the mayor of a town with six people, three pigs and a chicken. It's no big thing. It just something that needs to be done.
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Instructing computers is much more fun than instructing people.
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Most software developers are utterly unqualified for such a position.
It is often assumed that when a person is good at his job he is good at managing other people doing the same job. For the average software developer, this is far from the truth. Many of them are unqualified due to lack of communicative and social skills.
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Programming is micromanaging computers. People management is NOT micromanaging people!
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Switching to a job as a people manager requires a radically different way of solving problems, and technical people are not naturally gifted to make that transition.
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Non-technical people are even worse managers than technical ones.
Despite the inability of most software developers to become people managers, it seems that the selection of non-technical people is an even worse choice for management of technical people. It's because they don't speak the same language; they don't follow each others line of thinking and reasoning; they don't share the same humor, and they cannot communicate with each other using half a sentence and some jargon. Technical people need technologically savvy managers,
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You should not allow project managers to manage technical teams.
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