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Software is both a standalone industry and a skillset embedded within all industry. It is like management. Yes there are professional managers, consulting compa
by a_c 6y ago
Software is both a standalone industry and a skillset embedded within all industry. It is like management. Yes there are professional managers, consulting companies and the like. But you can't have good management by hiring professional managers. You have good management by becoming professional managers, assuming you already know you domain well. That's why an MBA on its own is useless, unless one is to enter consulting
I would say the same applies to software development
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI'd say it doesn't, because specializing in pure software is still useful for building better tools to make software. Does MBA help managers develop better management paradigms? I don't know. But if yes, then the mistake is hiring MBAs for managing company, instead of treating it as research skillset.