• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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          Do you want our species to die from a disease spread from telephone receivers? Because that’s how you get our species to die from a disease spread from telephone receivers.

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          Think about it: What’s the last thing everyone dying from a civilization-ending disease will do? Grab the phone and try to call emergency services.
          All those phones need to be sanitized, or the virus will just spread again.

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      A few competent project managers would probably help things quite a bit, actually.

      Having a single point of contact for several disparate teams of people doing real work so that they can actually do that work, instead of spending extra time in endless meetings arguing over the best way to implement something that requires multiple people’s input is a valuable tool to have.

      Think of them like a tank in an RPG, taking all the meeting hits that would otherwise decimate the effectiveness of people actually putting the real work in.

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        Valid. Competent is the key word. I’m lucky, in that most of the ones I work with are actually really good, but the ones my colleagues work with (in the same company, different division) might as well have gotten their PMMP certificate out of a cereal box.

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          Oh yeah, Project management is one of those roles that is especially vulnerable to the Peter Principal.

          In order to be a good one, you need to be part therapist and part hostage negotiator while also being one of those weirdos that enjoys meetings

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      What? You won’t pay me to be impatient? That’s bullshit.

      Just get more people working on it and it will get done on time, I’m sure the resources are there, just look at the chart, we cannot afford to delay schedule!

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmy.zip
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      Disagree. I’ve worked on some projects that would absolutely fall apart without our PMs. They are vital.