You're 100% right but the mistake certain kinds of managers make is basically selecting (in performance review or in hiring, whatever) only for that kind of person.
You might get lucky and get the "creative genius engineer who is also an organizational freak who lives to squash JIRA tickets" ... but you also... might not.
The ultimate job of good management in a competently hired software development team is to uncork the potential of team members by finding the things stopping them from being productive, and getting rid of the blockage. Finger pointing about ticket tracking and demanding paperwork ... will not do that, at least not for everyone. For some class of team members the best thing management can do is find some way to accomodate their idiosyncracies.
This is assuming everyone is motivated. I assume most of us are only at work doing what we do at a "startup" type place because we like it and want to do good work. But not everyone agrees on how good work gets done and how to get there.
Too many people go into management for the status or control. In my experience, a good manager is more of a coach than a "boss".
You might get lucky and get the "creative genius engineer who is also an organizational freak who lives to squash JIRA tickets" ... but you also... might not.
The ultimate job of good management in a competently hired software development team is to uncork the potential of team members by finding the things stopping them from being productive, and getting rid of the blockage. Finger pointing about ticket tracking and demanding paperwork ... will not do that, at least not for everyone. For some class of team members the best thing management can do is find some way to accomodate their idiosyncracies.
This is assuming everyone is motivated. I assume most of us are only at work doing what we do at a "startup" type place because we like it and want to do good work. But not everyone agrees on how good work gets done and how to get there.
Too many people go into management for the status or control. In my experience, a good manager is more of a coach than a "boss".