This is not news that matters. Normally I don't complain, but...

In this case, the prime manager, the mayor, had just been replaced inthe election.

Actually, management was blamed left and right, the audit helped force the contracting companies to eat far more of the cost, etc...
Trick i failed to mention, it was the NEW incoming mayor that ordered the audit, and less than 1% of project cost to date.

You can thank the GOP, aka the Retardican Party, for that. Decades of not letting teachers teach and demanding "teacher-proof curriculums" that kowtow to fake white-supremacist history, young-earth creationism, and other DumbRetardedFuckery.

Yeah, this sounds like some kind of jaded Transhumanist humiliation ritual.

If true as written, those 'monks' are without honor or reverence.

That's why you're not climbing the corporate ladder. Get more people under you ASAP. Learn to fight off your rivals. Or stay down.

Wrong. Managers are always scheming to get as many people below them as possible. Claiming savings is an effective short-term strategy that only works in specific circumstances, and it only works as a strategy when it results in more people below you on the org tree.

"Managers are actively trying to slow you down." Managers might be, but if they are I suspect is from sheer ignorance rather than any design to get more workers underneath them. The reward system favors using as few people as possible so they can claim x savings at the End-O-Year Roundup.

So true. Same with programming languages, too. Good engineers solve problems in the constraints they are given.

Why do you think their intent is to move faster?

If managers can slow you down, then they need to hire more people below them. That is a promotion for the manager.

Managers are actively trying to slow you down.

They don't sell to upper level management, they sell to second tier management.

If you're second level, you need to make "positive changes" in the company to climb the ladder, but you aren't smart enough to think of those changes yourself. Gartner sells the plan to second level managers, who sell it to top level in hopes of getting promoted.

Gartner, Forrester, etc are in the "help second tier managers get promoted" business.

Normally people become managers with zero training in management. It's not a high skill position.

If you want to manage, then this book will quickly get you into the 98th percentile of managers. Only 224 pages.

If you want to climb the corporate ladder, that is the difficult side of management. I don't know any good books about that.

Managers are largely judged based on how many people they've managed. The larger the number of people, the better. Thus their entire incentive structure is based on hiring new people below them, whether those people are useful or not.

It's the current meta for CxO suite: the idea is there are too many middle level managers. They don't have enough work so they spend their time playing office politics and in useless meetings.

The idea is to have bigger teams and fewer managers. Maybe instead of team sizes 4-6 move to team sizes 12-15.

Personally I think the problem isn't team size, it's a matter of having people who's entire job is to manage. If managers spend 50% (or some reasonable percentage) of their time doing practical work (ie, work that is not managing), then they are working alongside their teams and the problems will go away.

I looked at a waterfall project where the mayor ended up spending $3M to have an audit done on the current state of a project that was way behind on time and way over budget, only for them to come back and say that it'd be cheaper to burn all the effort to date and start fresh.