Programming makes managers nervous. Their solution is onerous process that mostly keeps the programmers from programming. Imagine if a plumber had a foreman fol

Programming makes managers nervous. Their solution is onerous process that mostly keeps the programmers from programming. Imagine if a plumber had a foreman following him around, and every time he tried to touch the pipes, the foreman cried "No, no, don't touch the pipes. You'll break something." A couple of times, I had managers who were stupendously good programmers. They weren't nervous about programming. They didn't care if we went in there, ripped everything up, and set it right again. Managers who don't code well must feel weird. Their responsible for this fragile thing, but they don't know how it works, or what you're doing to it.