The reason there are far fewer engineering management blogs compared to software development blogs not because there is a small supply of managers who can write blogs, but because managers are secretly worried they are doing it completely wrong (imposter syndrome).
Unlike engineering blogs, managers don’t tend to write up how something went totally wrong with managing people lest they reveal too much or make themselves look bad.
There’s also not a strong impetus to experiment. Experimental management sounds about as bad as experimental accounting.
See also:
- Management is kind of like bond management as in it’s a negative art
- Engineering management
Links to this note
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Incompetent Management Kind of Works
The essay Advantages of incompetent management by Yossi Kreinin, discusses how competent management isn’t always best and we overlook the desirable effects of incompetent management.