[slavapestov]

To be fair, you need at least one person on the team to do the actual work, while everyone else is “communicating and managing expectations”.

[pavel_lishin]

That statement is not untrue, but I think it over-estimates how much of the "actual work" is banging out code, vs. making sure the correct code is being written.

[ryandrake]

Yea, I've worked in a place where it was just "coders coding" and nobody was communicating and managing expectations, and that was its own unique form of awful. You need both.

[bandyaboot]

It’s actually possible for members of the team to be capable of doing “actual work” in addition to being good communicators.