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[mickel]

I propose the addition of more managers who can be assigned to various, more specialised jobs. There could, for example, be a kitchen manager who creates butchery, cooking, milling etc. jobs according to your preferences.

Communication

The managers would communicate, of course, with you and with each other, so that if, for example, the kitchen manager notices the stocks of flour are running low, he'll want to order more wheat milled. If, then, he notices the stocks of wheat are also low, he'll get in touch with the head manager who'll get in touch with the farming manager, who'll make sure a fresh big batch of wheat is planted for next harvest, at the expense of those crops that can be spared.

Creation

However managers are created is another matter. One could simply get the ability to assign them, once a manager noble has arrived, or perhaps they would arrive after the manager noble, when your production in their associated fields has grown enough. Perhaps the first dwarf to achieve legendary skill becomes one?

I honestly don't have a good idea, but I personally wouldn't like to have to wait for a legendary cook before I get a kitchen manager, because that'd never happen for me at the present rate.

[Istrian]

Manager cancels Give Orders: Being crushed by miles of red tape.

Multiple managers usually means that many more demands and mandates. Eventually you would have more managers than dwarves.

Besides you seldom get a lot of dwarves in a certain craft (most of the time 75% of my dwarves end up in the military), therefore one manager can fairly well handle all that.

However, what would be nice is having the manager gain levels in various management tasks, which would speed-up work in a certain jobs.

[mickel]

I hardly have any military at all. But then I've never gone past the magma yet. Sieges take care of themselves, and all that.

What I really wanted was better management, and if the one manager can take care of it, why not? As it is, you have to review your own stocks and make your own orders anyway, the manager doesn't really do much, can certainly not on his own.

Not much of a manager, is he?