the platonic ideal of a perfect manager grows a culture where if people have issues with other developers, or the organization, or is just stuck, they naturally reach out to other people. I fail to understand this model where 'blockers' are some kind of hidden disease that a manger needs to actively ferret out. in fact, in healthy organizations I've worked in..the whole notion of a blocker doesn't really exist. its more like 'I talked to this person and we decided that they should merge an earlier version of their work, because otherwise I'm not going to be able to start for another 3 weeks and that totally blows our schedule'
and that ideal manager has a much better and multidimensional idea of performance over time than commit rate.
the platonic ideal of manager isn't some kind of school marm whose primary concern is figuring out when people are slacking off
> the platonic ideal of a perfect manager grows a culture where if people have issues with other developers, or the organization, or is just stuck, they naturally reach out to other people.
Agreed, and this includes managers reaching out to their reports.
> I fail to understand this model where 'blockers' are some kind of hidden disease that a manger needs to actively ferret out.
You're imputing an attitude to me which I neither hold nor intended to convey.
> in healthy organizations I've worked in..the whole notion of a blocker doesn't really exist.
Weird. The idea that a step in a process can't be completed before another step seems bedrock to me. It's always good to eliminate these dependencies when one can, but that isn't always possible.
> the platonic ideal of manager isn't some kind of school marm whose primary concern is figuring out when people are slacking off
Considering that should be obvious, since an ideal doesn't have negative qualities, I'm forced to conclude you're responding to a bunch of things I didn't say.
and that ideal manager has a much better and multidimensional idea of performance over time than commit rate.
the platonic ideal of manager isn't some kind of school marm whose primary concern is figuring out when people are slacking off