I am a non-people manager, dual IC / team lead who spends about 20% of my time supervising and helping a few ICs plan and execute their projects. Having some Venters or Ranters or Disasters in my weekly project meetings would be interesting. But what I actually get is mostly relentlessly slow, underwhelming progress.<p>I really want to shake some of these people by the shoulders and ask what on earth they were doing for last week's 40 hours when the items they reported progress on seem like they'd take 10-20% of that at most.