"I used to write fiction stories.." yes but they have not stopped reading and writing english on the job. In fact I bet that reading and writing english is still the job.

Things I think software management should be doing

(besides fighting politics that again should not exist but does because corruption)

- review of reviews (how is the code review process going, i'm on problems, common wins)

- code analysis - hot spots, changing idioms,

- keeping up with rest if company - what code issues / infrastructure / operational / metrics are coming, how do we adjust