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This hits home.

Wy too many times I have been at places where the Project Manager is seen as the "Boss" or the gatekeeper by management and by himself.

Engineer usually disrespect the project manager as they don't really understand anything and just do stuff based on an Excel sheet.

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I prefer the U.S. Marines fire team version of a tech team: everybody codes, everybody looks out after everybody, you should be able to do your "boss's" job, it's critical to over-communicate, and ego has no place in a good team. Having said that, sometimes somebody has to make decisions. And somebody always has to go to meetings and report upstairs. Poor schmuck.

That's unavoidable. He's called manager for a reason. I would replace powerpoint for excel in my experience. Everyone wants a leader they can look up to and admire, not a PM.

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