> I've been working in the field professionally for 22+ years and I've never had a manager that had any technical skills. None of them could even begin to do my

> I've been working in the field professionally for 22+ years and I've never had a manager that had any technical skills. None of them could even begin to do my job Technical skills may or may not be required, but understanding is... "Each of my managers explained carefully his own theory of what had gone wrong and all the theories were different. At last, there breezed into my office the most senior manager of all, a general manager of our parent company, Andrew St. Johnston. I was surprised that he had even heard of me. "You know what went wrong?" he shouted--he always shouted-- "You let your programmers do things which you yourself do not understand." I stared in astonishment. He was obviously out of touch with present day realities. How could one person ever understand the whole of a modem software product like the Elliott 503 Mark II software system? I realized later that he was absolutely right; he had diagnosed the true cause of the problem and he had planted the seed of its later solution. " - C.A.R Hoare, 1980 Turing Award speech