There are some fine insights but generally it's the old view of managers vs programmers as passive workers. For example, the advice for managers to encourage pr

There are some fine insights but generally it's the old view of managers vs programmers as passive workers. For example, the advice for managers to encourage programmers to do refactoring as part of normal (business-oriented) tasks is skewed. It's programmers who know the field and they should have some power to give refactoring tasks the same value as business-oriented ones. They should be partners. My view is also probably skewed compared to what a typical "software development" company does, but I don't believe that Google or YC startups do this kind of management.