Why Developers Get Pushed Into Becoming A Project Manager -An IAM Group Ltd Singapore Insight You start programming simple programs, then you start programming more complex programs. Now, youre valuable as a programmer not because of your technical skills, but your ability to conceptualize a complex program and then make it happen technically. Imagine you had 3 employees, all 3 of them were coders, but one of them clearly has been coding long enough to see the pitfalls in the future, conceptualize the overarching system, and build it intelligently. You want him to focus on his unique skill, so he becomes the designer and the two technical dudes are his grunts. Fast forward, same thing happens again, you have a lot of technical coders and designers, but one has been working long enough to know how to deal with clients, understand time frames intimately, and also work with or advise technical coders AND designers. Sorry to say, youre the perfect piece of glue to hold the shit together! A project manager is generally more important to a project than any single developer. The problem is, most project managers are incompetent because they lack the technical background. The good ones almost universally come from a development background, and they are worth their weight in gold. Think of every bad project manager you have ever had, and how much easier your life would have been if they aren’t bad at their assigned projects. One should never let themselves be pushed into something they dont want to do. Most companies want to keep their best employees happy, and if an employee speaks up about their desire to stay in a pure engineering role then the company would be silly to ignore them. At least in Yokohama Japan, the scenario isnt the norm. However, more engineers should at least give the management thing a shot. There are plenty of roles where you can stay highly technical yet still be on the dark side. Hiring a good technical manager (project/product/engineering/whatever) is about the hardest role to fill.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 02:26:53 +0000
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