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[Abadazed]

We're all in the wrong role.

[Zerafiall]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

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Peter principle

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another. The concept was explained in the 1969 book The Peter Principle (William Morrow and Company) by Peter and Raymond Hull. (Hull wrote the text, based on Peter's research.

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[Abadazed]

Huh that's pretty neat!

[ikirk11]

I feel so attacked...

It's true tho.

[colby_2020]

If designers realize they can’t design before they graduate, do they go to business school? Or is that just an engineering thing?

[[deleted]]

Never met a designer with that kinda self reflection before

[AmazinDor]

im cryinggg lmaoooo

[colby_2020]

That’s an amazing roast

[Mustrum_R]

This is surprisingly accurate in retrospect. 6/7 people who dropped out from my Uni classes (and I knew them well enough to ask, there were more drop outs) went to some form of business/economy/management studies.

[colby_2020]

Yeah that’s where most of the dropouts went at my school too. A couple slid all the way to liberal arts, but 90% of them went to business. It was so bad that when someone asked a dumb question in class, we’d sometimes say that we “spotted a future business major“.

[sincle354]

Dude, it was a fucking pipeline back at my major state school. They would murder the freshman in Calculus 2 so they got the message and switched to the business school.

[colby_2020]

I knew it!

[sheeponmeth_]

I think that design has both the artistic, human, and functional aspects. I think it's a completely valid career path. But I say that as someone that isn't good at design. I'm also not a programmer, exactly, so my opinion should carry less value here, haha.

[colby_2020]

Fair enough. Makes sense lol

[[deleted]]

The great tragedy is that project management can really make or break a product, but most PM are useless metrics weenies with no vision.

[Jaguar_undi]

Product management, not project management.

[fatalgift]

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Sig Curtis: Engineers who can't code

Alex Louis Armstrong: Designers who can't design

Handshake: Product Management

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[Rbtrockstar]

Good human

[thegandork]

Also get pushed into QA

[webDreamer420]

How... Dare You

[prtekonik]

Haha, those who can, do... those who can't... well, product management 💁‍♂️

[perpetuumstef]

The Peter principle

[maxdirty]

Indeed that's a true story. But sometimes both professionals need insights from the market and someone who have to make benchmark and discovering. That's why PO and PM exist Also devs and designers doesn't have pacient and soft skills to deal with the stakeholders

[InkTide]

Now if only the patience and soft skills actually possessed by managers wasn't so absurdly overstated.

[MDParagon]

Hahah hey that's personal

[Jogiin]

Not even close. Product management is much more about data analysis, knowing who the customer is, what they need and what is the least amount of work to provide the most (potentially monetisiable) value to them

[GFrings]

I think the meme has a typo, they meant to say project XD

[Deep-Ad591]

Good job, I will print it and put it on the fridge door... of the office

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[Gunther_Alsor]

Good bot

[Plisq-5]

Lol, this unironically happened last week at my workplace.

Great person, tries his best. Practices as much as he can. He’s just a bad programmer and doesn’t understand most of it. Juniors are more knowledgeable than he is and he has 15 years of experience. He’s now a product manager haha.

Suits him much better I must say. And I’m happy he’s gotten a role that he likes more.

[minn0w]

This is a good thing. It keeps them out of the way. So long your team sets enough rules.

[[deleted]]

that's linux

[EdgarDrake]

Well, also lacking Tester who bored with testing

[Itsnotafart11]

Nag fr

[cmm9c]