Originally posted by: Pepsei
Originally posted by: JASANITY
To the worker bee's, a PM with technical skills is highly respected, and results in a strong following. When you do not have the technical skills, they will not respect you, nor work half as hard as a PM with technical skills. I have seen projects die because of a PM with no technical skills, that could not even hold a conversation in our group meetings... I have never heard "I will get back to you later" so much in my life. ie project died.
we have people like that here.... sadly...
the thing is, that in our company, people does not work directly under the PM, we're just resources under the PM. so we end up working our ass off just so our department would look good, regardless of how crappy the PM is.