[AdrianB1]

I wonder how the best manager was not qualified to understand what his team is doing, if they do it right or not and was also not able to help them in case there was a technical challenge. This is not how successful companies operated when they became successful, before getting bloated.

[broken-kebab]

Why, no coding experience doesn't mean "dumb". He was able to see the picture, and facilitate productive discussions between qualified team members. It worked wonderfully. Some managers who are former devs just want to leave their footprint on every technical decison really having no time or attention span to dig into a question. Guess which approach is more helpful.