Why Developers dislike Project Managers?

It is a legendary war. In same breath as the daughter in laws and mother in laws, there is a feeling that other side just does not get it. Both sides of course thinks that they have the best interest of the project/organization etc. in their minds. (Of course they do, but just don't seem to see it in the same angle).

Where would I stand on this is difficult to state because my current role is that off a part developer and part project manager. And then you also have account for the fact I am really leading an remote team and am a front face of that team at a client site.

So that really makes it - Down the creek without - the paddle, lifejacket, helmet and the canoe.

Of course, when I was a developer, of course had no love for my project manager. The one I had 6 years back, though she may had been good at heart, she was a nightmare when it came to setting unrealistic deadlines. Of course, back then, I was fresh from college and too cocky to realize the bigger picture and her pressures.

Then couple of years ago, I had a project manager far too liberal, excerised little too less control and hardly had any focus. The project was a disaster, never really got off the ground. Ultimately lead to loss of job, including mine, sadly.

My First Blog Entry

Generally speaking, I am usually the jump on to new technology stuff especially if it is free.

I was the first one in my class (in college) to have a personal website in 1998. Of course, it was nothing great, just my experiment with Microsoft FrontPage and throwing in some personal stuff and pictures of my fantasy girl (not too naughty pictures just a good looking babe in two piece swimsuits!)

But since then, very little has changed on that website (in past 4 years).

My more successful endeavors have been to set up a mailing list (through e-groups, now Yahoo! Groups) for my college class. Umm... the class website of which I am the webmaster, has met the same fate as my personal website, though there were lot many contributors than me.

So when this blogging and now Wiki phenomena rolled along, I really waited to jump into the bandwagon till today. So here I am with my first entry to a Blog.

What prompted me to do so? That's a story (umm... blog entry for another day).

To set the tone for my Blog, I would be usually writing about computer technology and some off beat experience, when I have applied logic into real life like - X-box game play, saving money, lawn mowing, managing relatives etc. Things in which I have failed miserably or have been reasonably successful.

So readers, learn from my success and failures... in field of computer technology and beyond.