[Raineer]

When I encounter it, I feel it's often a hatred of the "doers vs the thinkers"

My career path was 25 years engineering, before migrating into a hybrid EE/PM role as sort of a natural progression from being "the engineer who knew how to run the project". Once I started learning the more formal approaches to PM, it uncovered an entire world of engineers who have an incredible hatred of any sort of planning of any kind, because all planning time is wasted and we should all just be doing.

The parent comment here feels the same way. Hatred towards research because it's all theoretical (I guess?). It seems clear as day that the best approach is a marriage between the two.

[quintushoratius]

I think it's summed up by the mantra "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

[gfody]

I suspect "hatred of any sort of planning of any kind" is actually hatred for planning that fails to embody any actual strategy (and is therefor a waste of time because it doesn't help solve any actual problem except maybe alleviate non-technical vips anxiety with false hope). "formal approaches to PM" evokes just that sort of thing in my mind (kpis/goals masquerading as strategy, gantt charts, etc)

[willis936]

When I worked in a university lab that builds stellarators I learned that misgivings towards researchers is all bullshit. There are engineers and there are pencil pushers. Pencil pushers burn money and bark loudly. Real engineers can plan and execute on time and under budget.