> A single clueless person in a position of trust with non technical management and a huge budget
This is terrifying to me, especially as the CEO (I use the term because it's technically accurate in this case, not to be a douchebag) of a well-funded startup who is semi-technical. I can build basic apps and scripts and started out building things for the company, but now that we have real talent I would slow things down if I were in the code every day.
As such, I end up in a semi-product manager role, and consider myself responsible to make sure we're quickly shipping product in line with our goals, but at the end of the day I have to trust the people I work with, all of whom are experts in their respective areas. Luckily I can.
I have no idea how a non-technical product manager who has hired a contractor from an Eastern Bloc country would know when they're being reasonable and when they're just trying to screw him. That's just a recipe for disaster. It's a blind man in a new city taking an unofficial taxi cab. Makes me cringe.
This is terrifying to me, especially as the CEO (I use the term because it's technically accurate in this case, not to be a douchebag) of a well-funded startup who is semi-technical. I can build basic apps and scripts and started out building things for the company, but now that we have real talent I would slow things down if I were in the code every day.
As such, I end up in a semi-product manager role, and consider myself responsible to make sure we're quickly shipping product in line with our goals, but at the end of the day I have to trust the people I work with, all of whom are experts in their respective areas. Luckily I can.
I have no idea how a non-technical product manager who has hired a contractor from an Eastern Bloc country would know when they're being reasonable and when they're just trying to screw him. That's just a recipe for disaster. It's a blind man in a new city taking an unofficial taxi cab. Makes me cringe.