How to find a competent manager of a team of programmers in the office?

Question

Project management

Hello, for several years I have been struggling with the search for programmers in the team. Please tell me what is the name of the profession of a person who can select programmers and control their work in the office.

Answer 1

These are two different professions, and programmers treat the picturesque representatives of both of them without enthusiasm.
The first one is called HR. This is such a combination of a secretary and a psychologist who knows how to select people who look like programmers, who are able to behave adequately in 40 minutes of the initial interview and do not gnaw furniture (they do not bring weapons to the interview, do not swear that schoolchildren have flooded the industry and they need to pierce eye screwdriver and so on).
The second is called the manager.
However, the very question that you need someone to supervise the work of programmers indicates that there are certain management problems in your organization.
The job of a programmer is a creative process. The closer he gets to the routine from the fence to lunch, the higher the likelihood that someone will automate this task and the further you will cease to be a competitor to him, because the framework works 24/7 and for free, and the programmers for this (in your opinion) need a manager.
In more or less healthy teams , control is mutual, because the assessment of the difficulty of a task can change dramatically in the process of solving a problem, and the right product team knows how to deal with it (In the wrong team, the manager will begin to blather "well, you said it was weeks", the procedure for re-evaluating the terms should be correct, taking into account the revealed circumstances).
In total, look like seminars on Agile, Scrum and other modern teamwork practices, read about Human Risks & Limitations, work with a psychotherapist to remove the initial distrust of people and the desire to assign a controller with a stick to each employee, and hire an HR girl, to work with HH.RU and agencies.