Questions tagged [technical-leader]

This tag is for questions that are related to a leader's involvement in the technical arena.

Some project managers are non-technical and are largely responsible for driving the forward progress of the project. These project managers will focus on communication between departments, communication with clients, and communications with managers and stakeholders.

Technical project managers sometimes face problems that are uniquely different than those faced by non-technical project managers. Since many project managers come from a technical background, they will have questions regarding how to deal with what some might consider to be their technical Achilles heel.

Example topics that fall under this tag include asking questions such as:

How technical should a Project Manager be?

Do technical leaders compete with project managers?

How to Avoid Micro-Managing a Software Development Team?

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Do technical leaders compete with project managers?

Technical leaders in our projects are competing with project managers. Or in more general aspect, is it a problem if someone with greater domain specific knowledge tends to dominate in project or become an informal PM? If a person with technical…
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How to assess technical knowledge of the team?

Say, I am given a list of 5 developers, and I have to choose 3 of them for my project. What will be the best way to do so? Currently, I just give them a basic module from the current project and assess the code and the time taken. Is there a better…
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How to deal as PM for a technical-only refactoring project

Our company has accepted to do a full-scale refactoring of our core IT product and I'm supposed to act as PM for this project. First some background info: The project is 5-6 years old, build as a monolith of code by a single guy (for about 3…
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