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+1 "managing isn't something everyone is good at." How many bad developers get moved to management to keep them from causing trouble, and then cause even more?
by asolove 16y ago
+1 "managing isn't something everyone is good at." How many bad developers get moved to management to keep them from causing trouble, and then cause even more?
- pavel_lishin 16y agoIsn't that basically the Peter Principle?
- kenjackson 16y agoThe Peter Principle is less cynical, but probably more realistic. It's that you get promoted for doing a good job, but eventually you get promoted into a job you're not good at -- at which point you stop being promoted and you stay in a role that you're not suited for. Note, there's nothing malicious that happens here. No one is trying to promote a bad developer. People are largely doing what they think makes sense -- promoting top performers.
- jsdalton 16y agoThe usual money quote for the Peter Principle is, "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" -- but I like your summation so much better.
- gvb 16y agoIt is the Dilbert Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dilbert_principle "[C]ompanies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management [...] in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing."
- pavel_lishin 16y agoAh, whoops - that's the one, you're right.
- emp_ 16y agoI like to call it the Alicia Principle http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speed-of-Code.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speed-of-Code.aspx