The Project Mangler

 

As an IT project manager, you've more than likely been involved in numerous meetings that involved making technical decisions. While listening to these hi-tech discussions, I'm sure you've formed an opinion as to which developer knew what he/she was talking about, and which one wasn't bringing much to the table.

Much like you, software developers judge your project management skills based on your participation in such meetings. Do they consider you to be an effective project manager, or a project mangler?

A Simple Test

As a project manager, you're not required to answer off the top of your head which platform performs best in terms of latency, throughput and resource utilization, or which architecture best suits your JSP Web-based application, the Forwarding Requests model or the Loosely Coupled one. However, you might be expected to answer project management related questions such as the following:

• How many KLOC are in your application?
• On average, how many lines of code can a developer write per week?
• On average, how many bugs can your developers fix per week?
• On average, how many bugs do you find per KLOC in your application during the verification phase?
• On average, how long is the definition phase as a percentage of the overall development cycle?
• On average, how long is the verification phase as a percentage of the …

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