Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks agoIdeally you want a balance of both, pure people skills ends with poor technical decisions, pure technical ends with inability to get the other employees on board.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Id rather they leave the technical decisions to the people they literally hire to do technical stuff, not the people they hire to do people stuff.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
The direction a company should go in is a technical decision. It has to come from a leader of some kind, and if that leader is non technical or disconnected from the employees, that’s how you get poor decisions.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Using MySQL vs mariadb is not a managerial decision. Using Debian over Fedora is not a managerial decision.
Using Service Now over Top desk is a managerial decision.
That is what I mean when talking about technical people making technical decisions
A good manager points the org in a direction and let’s those hired for roles do their job in working to that objective.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Agreed, those arent high level manager decisions, but they aren’t intern decisions either. They’ll be made by a mid level manager or team lead.
The higher up the chain, the less technical and more general the decisions get, but they do still need to have some level of technical understanding, or the direction they point you in could be completely detached from reality.