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Problem: Contributors don’t know what important things are going on elsewhere in the community. They’re disengaged and don’t align their effort across teams.
Sometimes being a great program manager is less about doing and more about knowing and—more to the point—communicating what you know. Who did what? Which teams need help? How likely are we to meet our release target?
As a program manager, you’re in an inherently cross-functional role. Because you’re talking with all the parts of the community, you’re in an ideal position to let everyone know what the others are doing.
In The Mythical Man-Month [Bro95], Fred Brooks said “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” His reasoning is simple: when more people are ...
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