>>108595636>all problems can be solved with a technological solution, instead of having people with actual people skills in those rolesYou don't need people skills to track tasks to a project plan, or make a project plan to begin with. And you don't need great people skills to email some asshole, and that asshole's manager, about a task that isn't done that blocks three other stupid things on your plan.
Consider a talent releasing an orisong, and needing lyrics written, vocals recorded, mix done, and an MV rendered. And it all has to be done by some arbitrary asspull date which the merch department needs so the novelty song acrylic stand can go up when spotify gets the song. The spotify date is pre-decided with the streaming services so moving it is free but has to be done days in advance, not hours or the last fucking minute.
One could argue that needs someone with music industry experience to do that (specialized field), or that it needs someone who has the bedside manner of a hospice nurse to keep the talent menhera in check (high people skills).
Because when (and not if) a few of the steps are late the asspull date will need to be replanned or something has to be cut in the production, or the talent will need to record vocals in a single day and the mixer pulls an all-nighter and the talent and the mixer both shit themselves hoping it's passable with autotune (crunch time). And in the crunch time case, the talent graduates 6 months later or does a social media yab on roommate right after so good luck with that.
But I don't think that's all that different from any other project, and not all talents do music. Justice likes to do those choose your own adventure birthday event streams, and they have some of the same places things can go off the rails. Any halfway functioning business does this all the time, and IT type companies should be able to do this blindfolded and upside down.
