Having worked with a lot of managers, it can cut both ways. Perhaps it's the lessons these managers learned (or chose to learn) when they were more directly inv

Having worked with a lot of managers, it can cut both ways. Perhaps it's the lessons these managers learned (or chose to learn) when they were more directly involved in the development process that really matters. The people who came away from the experience with something like "the pace of change is rapid, keeping up is difficult, and some core problems may never be solved" seems to be much easier to work with than someone how chose to learn random facts like "caches are bad" or "caches are good" or "Oracle is the only real database server" or "Java is the only proper language."