And again about softwate development life cycle

Over my long career, I’ve worked with all kinds of managers, each with a completely different take on what the job actually means. Some of them were really cool people, working in close synergy with their teams. But as business demands grew, they were often replaced by “effective” managers - the ones whose main strategy is pushing harder, demanding more, meeting the targets, while ignoring the mental health of their teams. And here is the issue: if a manager’s role is reduced to tracking KPIs, monitoring output and enforcing deadlines, company bosses will eventually ask: Why do we need a manager for this when AI can do the job? Maybe this is where management will have to change. Managers should be the ones who can build trust, understand people, deal with conflicts, make difficult decisions and create an environment where people actually want to do their best work. They should become true leaders. As a conslution, remember:  AI may replace managers - but only if they manage like ma...

Many people, especially in flat structured organisations, say that they don’t need managers. Right, but from my point of view it’s getting possible only if everyone in the organisation is on the same page, can easily and openly communicate to each other, knows where their product is growing, everyone is highly motivated and nobody has high career ambitions. The best example of flat structured organisation is a startup working in a small garage. Definitely they don’t need managers, they know what they are building, they can communicate to each other and they define their business strategy. Problems come with growing of the product where one day they will have to start hiring new people. Staying flat structured means working hard together and make decisions together, not only technical decisions but strategic and managerial as well. More your company grow, more difficult it is to keep flat structure working well, more time it requires to convince others in chosen directions and business...