Is Your Project Manager A Sith Lord? Three Ways To Find Out

1. They deal in absolutes

Software engineering is a complex field with many grey areas. But your Sith project manager sees only black and white.

To them, there are only action points and deadlines. This is because they come from a long line of Sith who have been groomed from birth to think in absolutes.

2. They keep altering the deal

No matter how much you pray, they keep on altering it further. The original specs were defined two months ago, but they keep adding more features “for the good of the project”.

The result? Your team is working overtime, weekends and holidays, just to meet the manager’s unrealistic goals.

If you dare confront them about it, they will look you dead into your eyes and tell you to “do it.” You might as well give up trying to reason with them and just do what they say.

3. They constantly ask you if you have heard the Tragedy of Darth Gantt

Gannt charts are a project management tool used to visually represent the timeline of a project. But your Sith project manager loves to ask you if you have heard the story of those charts.