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> I think the best management technique for successfully developing a software system in the 1970s and 1980s (and perhaps in the following decades), is based on
by gwbas1c 5y ago
> I think the best management technique for successfully developing a software system in the 1970s and 1980s (and perhaps in the following decades), is based on being lucky enough to have a few very capable people, and then providing them with what is needed to get the job done while maintaining the fiction to upper management that the agreed bureaucratic plan is being followed.
Surprisingly, very little has changed.
- googamooga 5y agoThis management practice called “programmers anarchy”. It worked very well in my professional life too.
- BrissyCoder 5y agoThird this. Process doesn't really matter. Just hire good programmers and let them program.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoIt's not really "anarchy". Setting goals and delegating responsibility is how things are supposed to be led. Substituting that with project management is a pathology.