At the current state of the corporate job that I am part of, I must redeem myself to the state of a plentiful potato, when talking with upper project management, and it pisses me off. Why? I’ll tell you why, and it’s becase of the constant jerking off to goddamned Jira Cards, whereas they believe that a green checkbox reflects reality.
It does not.
The most inhumane thing that us tech workers are obliged to do to get to grips with the management people, is have an “up to date” picture of what the current state of the project looks like. But hell, honestly, who has time for it and who fucking cares? People will just look at that and call it a day, and move on, or continue doing their tasks.
In the end it is not the fucking board that counts as the final product, but it is the goddamned final product in any case. And tell me of one fucking sane human being who bothers or even borderlines accepts the dehumanizing perspective of filling up jira cards that will soon be forgotten into the void?
Okay, okay, maybe, I guess, to some extent, they have some sort of usefulness, bug tracking and the like sorting out stuff, but that is more aligned towards the technical and analytical side of things. Whereas, when it is management that seeks up stuff (it is always some manager who has no clue whatsoever of what the hell the engineers are doing), all they fucking care is their goddamned checkboxes and deadlines.
They do not care of what you did days past, or the issues you had to resolve, and it seems outright that some of them cannot even fathom a glimpse of comprehension upon that. I am not meaning to say that everyone should have prior tech knowledge upon every single thing, but it sure as hell bothers me a lot that the non-technical people sometimes ought to dictate the pace of the run when they don’t vaguely know the implications of the technologies that are being implemented here in the first place.
So, you now see where we are getting at. There is an utmost disconnection between the upper management and us, the tech analysts which are responsible for making the cogs and the grind of everyday tech jobs work. And honestly, I do believe by the adagio that sometimes you could teach a parrot how to do a better work than some other project managers out there. At least parrots are friendly, and funny, in most cases.
But in any case, there seems to be not only a gap, but a whole crater in between management and the tech workers, where particularly the managers don’t seem to care (at least most I have worked with) to the conditions that are being presented, or even yet, they don’t even understand. So, in my take here, I do believe that it would be a must to have the management positions inside a tech company come from tech enthusiasts, and not everyday ordinary people which have no prior or background knowledge on what the details are when managing a tech product.
At least, I do believe, if it were so, we could have some sort of common understanding, barely, and not just some jerking off to the jira cards, day in and day out as if THAT was an actua representation of what’s really going on.
Trust me, it is not.