Posted by Pavel Lepin on 08/13/07 14:11

Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
<4-6dncfVZPDU_13bnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@comcast.com>:
> Pavel Lepin wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
>> <Goydnb86ofrT1l3bnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@comcast.com>:
>>> Pavel Lepin wrote:
>>>> David Gillen <Belial@RedBrick.DCU.IE> wrote in
>>>> <slrnfc0dq2.h3v.Belial@murphy.redbrick.dcu.ie>:
>>>>> Godfather said:
>>>>>> Please Show me the best way to learn PHP in 1 week.I
>>>>>> want to manage a group of PHP Programmers.
>>>>>>
>>>>> You don't need to know any PHP to be a manager. In
>>>>> fact I think most programmers would prefer it if their
>>>>> manager didn't think they knew how to code.
>>>> I must disagree. The best project manager I've ever
>>>> worked under was actually a very capable programmer
>>>> himself--and that showed. On the other hand, he also
>>>> was extremely good at refraining from backseat driving,
>>>> so there is something to the idea that good managers
>>>> don't tinker with gizmos and whatchamacallits, no
>>>> matter how good or bad at tinkering they are.
>>
>>> A project manager needs to know the languages involved.
>>> A manager is an administrative person and needs much
>>> less technical knowledge.
>>
>> I'm fairly certain the OP was talking about a project
>> manager/team leader position, though. Real pointy-haireds
>> don't manage PHP programmers IME, they manage 'stuff'.
>
> I just took him at his word when he said he was going to
> manage programmers.

By your reasoning he's aspiring to be a 'programmer
manager', not a 'manager', since managers wouldn't manage
anyone or anything in particular; they would manage
intransitively, just for the heck of it (and that's pretty
much what I said anyway).

> Project managers generally manage projects.

Probably a misnomer. I don't believe guinea pigs have
anything to do with Guinea. Or pigs. Seriously though, I'm
not sure what the general practices in this respect are,
but from my experience project managers manage projects,
programmers, various other allocated resources, customer
communications and whatever else might be in the way of
their fanatical devotion to the Pope; while senior-level
managers, those that go without additional qualifiers in
front of their M.'s, tend to just keep an eye on everything
unless things start looking really grim, in which case they
just invoke their built-in
Yell-Cut-Fire-Downsize-Pass-Buck-Cover-Ass module.

--
"Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as
virtue." -- Ambrose Bierce

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