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by yesbabyyes 2350 days ago
An assistant/secretary is what a project manager is supposed to be. The title is wrong in that it makes everybody think they are supposed to be a manager, a source of many problems in our line of work.

Edit: to answer your question about affording one, it seems around 5 developers can share one secretary, and split the cost. Incidentally, this is a usual setup with a PM as well, but again, they often seem to think their job is to manage the developers, not the project (which they also often don't do).