alt Hacker News> too much dependency on me for context and such
If you're management, that's literally your job. Synthesize and communicate the important context bits.
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0xbadcafebee • today at 12:31 AM
That makes the manager a bottleneck. The manager should shield their direct reports from harm, but also enable independent cross-team communication/collaboration. Otherwise many new problems arise.
Sometimes. When my manager went on sabbatical I had to reach out directly to other teams. We got so much done with that higher bandwidth, unmediated communication. OTOH my boss's boss was constantly breathing down my neck for status updates. There's a balance to everything I suppose.