I was part of a team of developers where one was our manager and team leader. This led to a total collapse of anything resembling productivity. In short, all decisions were made by that guy + he was a complete micro manager which of course killed all creativity. This meant, in this case, that any ideas and suggestion which he did not agree with was shot down or ignored.

So, I think it is a bad idea having anyone on the team in a "higher" position. In this case, the manager was horrible, but I guess even with a great manager hi will (unintentionally) influence the other developers and this will lead to lower performance.

I was part of a team of developers where one programmer was also our manager. This led to a total collapse of anything resembling productivity. In short, all decisions were made by that guy + he was a complete micro manager. Any ideas and suggestion which he did not agree with was shot down or ignored. This eventually killed all creativity and motivation.

So, I think it is a bad idea having anyone on the dev team in a "higher" position. In my case, the guy was a command-and-control manager, but I even a great manager will (unintentionally) influence the other developers which eventually leads to lower performance. At least of the team is reporting to him.

I was part of a team of developers where one was our manager and team leader. This led to a total collapse of anything resembling productivity. In short, all decisions were made by that guy + he was a complete micro manager which of course killed all creativity. This ment, in this case, that any ideas and suggestion which he did not agree with was shot down or ignored.

So, I think it is a bad idea having anyone on the team in a "higher" position. In this case, the manager was horrible, but I guess even with a great manager hi will (unintentionally) influence the other developers and this will lead to lower performance.

I was part of a team of developers where one was our manager and team leader. This led to a total collapse of anything resembling productivity. In short, all decisions were made by that guy + he was a complete micro manager which of course killed all creativity. This meant, in this case, that any ideas and suggestion which he did not agree with was shot down or ignored.

So, I think it is a bad idea having anyone on the team in a "higher" position. In this case, the manager was horrible, but I guess even with a great manager hi will (unintentionally) influence the other developers and this will lead to lower performance.