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I think the aversion that most engineers have to management, is that software development is already a very nebulous beast. Actually delivering a solution that
by rplst8 10y ago
I think the aversion that most engineers have to management, is that software development is already a very nebulous beast. Actually delivering a solution that is called a "success" is often a slippery moving target. Being the one who is responsible for the project's success is even scarier.
- sage76 10y agoYou could say the same about a big legal case or a surgery. In both cases, lives can be on the line. Here it's just code. It became scary for me when I saw extremely poor leadership that disregarded everything from Andy Grove's high output management. Forget that, I went through a series of YC lectures where speakers covered how startups should mature into companies, and even those simple management techniques were not being used.