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Project management for programmers

Raging slashdot discussion: "I’m a senior web developer in a medium sized company where the project managers have no programming experience of any sort. I’m of the opinion that project managers should understand the projects that they’re managing and want to move into project management myself. I’m aware that I may meet resistance from the current project managers - many of them have been hired with no previous experience of anything. Previous suggestions to senior management that myself and other developers would feel better with a technical person running projects have been dismissed. As a result we are routinely told to skip testing or to implement the impossible, with an emphasis on how things look rather than how well things actually work. Has anyone else found the barrier to project management is their technical knowledge. How did you get past it?".

I’ve been lucky so far in that all my managers - in my current job, previous jobs - were terrific technology gurus. But I can relate to the problem because even managers with technically sound knowledge might get pushed around by people above them.