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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | source
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zafka ◴[05 Feb 25 15:42 UTC] No.42950100[source]▶
"93%, maybe 95.2%, of project managers, could disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency. (this estimate is up from 4 years ago)"

This made me laugh it is so true. My last big project at "Big Co" ( Knee surgery robot ) My small group went through 4 project managers - just for our small team. The entire project had probably 20. While a few where enjoyable to work with, there was very little value added and a lot of time spent filling them in.

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1. waylandsmithers ◴[06 Feb 25 02:55 UTC] No.42958458[source]▶
I was really surprised to hear this because I feel the exact opposite! I've worked mainly with project managers who ran all the ceremonies, held people accountable, dealt with planning and doling out tasks, handled stakeholders and generally protected the devs from distractions, and took real leadership and accountability in the project.

Whenever I've worked on a team where a developer is the team lead and has to do all that stuff on top of coding- or worse, it's just a free for all with no leader- , things in my experience go much worse, communication breaks down, and things slip through the cracks.