What a Program Manager Does
As a program manager, you coordinate the efforts of the contributor community to meet the project’s goals. The title “Chief Cat-Herding Officer” is a joke, but an apt one. You’re working with a group largely or entirely composed of volunteers to produce software that other people will want to use. Individually, contributors have their own interests and goals. When you’re a successful program manager, you get these individuals aligned in the same general direction to meet the overall goals of the community.
If you’ve seen the movie Finding Nemo, you may have a visual in mind (except with fish, not cats). Nemo is a fish separated from his father. In one scene, he’s swimming with a school of tuna that gets scooped up ...
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