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Poor project managers are useless, but so is a poor developer, technician or any other specialty.
Great project managers are gold. Just as is a great dev.
Don't be so myopic.
Every futurist claim I've ever heard has overestimated human capability and underestimated the impact of other things they possibly should have seen coming.
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If you think project managers are useless then I'd never want to work on a project with you. Poor project managers are useless, but so is a poor developer, technician or any other specialty. Great project managers are gold. Just as is a great dev. Don't be so myopic.
Am I the only one who is pessimistic about a superhuman-capability future? Regardless of the accuracy of the predictions.
Compared to all of human history, we are already superhuman.
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I have the Washington Post from Jan 1, 2000. Below the fold is an article on what the future would hold tech-wise for a child born that day. By 2010, we were all supposed to be wearing wristbands with all of our medical information on it, so doctors would simply have to scan them to gain our history. We also wouldn't have cheap (meaning not thousands upon thousands of dollars) mobile computers with the ability to acc…
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If you think project managers are useless then I'd never want to work on a project with you. Poor project managers are useless, but so is a poor developer, technician or any other specialty. Great project managers are gold. Just as is a great dev. Don't be so myopic.
Don't know what the deleted comment said, but I second that. A good PM protects you from the nonsense that kills focus.
What did forecast 2010 look like from 1990?
"First, European governments will be absorbed by the need to renegotiate the social contract, i.e., the entitlement programs of the social welfare state hammered out in the post-1945 period. This is not a choice but a necessity: a large, aging population sits atop a shrinking labor pool and declining birth rates, unemployment remains chronic, and growth rates are projected at 2-3 percent per year at best--acceptable by historical standards (as well as the standards of other countries) but short of public expectations. Labor market rigidities and lack of productivity growth will strengthen protectionist tendencies."
I have the Washington Post from Jan 1, 2000. Below the fold is an article on what the future would hold tech-wise for a child born that day. By 2010, we were all supposed to be wearing wristbands with all of our medical information on it, so doctors would simply have to scan them to gain our history. We also wouldn't have cheap (meaning not thousands upon thousands of dollars) mobile computers with the ability to acc…
You really sucked the fun out of that.