This was a decade when it was not easy for a start-up to even give birth, for things were so complex and expensive too. There wasn't promulgation of open-source tools and technologies and the cheap cloud that takes so much of the pain out from you for infrastructure management was simply not there.
This was an era when one enterprise was painfully dependent on other for the specialized services that the other provides. This mandated the need for Project Managers over Engineering Managers. And the viral joke in the community was something like,
This was an era when one enterprise was painfully dependent on other for the specialized services that the other provides. This mandated the need for Project Managers over Engineering Managers. And the viral joke in the community was something like,
"If you got a person in the development team who is not capable of any of its function but is surviving by his glib talk, make him a Project Manager".