On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:31:37AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > I would think that the same things that attract a technical individual > > could attract a non-technical individual. Desire to learn. Desire to > > contribute. Desire to build skills for resume or future employment. > > And so on. The thing is that the current NM process is heavily biased > > toward technical people/programmers/developers/etc. That is probably a > > discouragement to people who are more management oriented. > > I'm not sure what you're advocating, but in my experience, project > managers without the capacity to understand the technical issues of the > project that they are supposed to be managing are worse than useless. > I am not advocating having a manager without technical competency or the ability to understand technical issues. Just that being a manager does not require being a fourth-degree blackbelt in Perl or having written a textbook on C++ programming. The point is that there are people who understand the technical issues but are much more adept managers. All I am saying is that the current NM process (I am just at the tail end of it now) is heavily biased toward those with a strong interest in programming, system administration, and so on. I know that some people become DDs to work on documentation (a very important and thankless job), but they are by far the exception and not the rule.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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