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Is this _really_ so hard for stakeholders to understand? for decades now, every generation of programmers has been larger than the previous one. every generat
by tessierashpool 3y ago
Is this _really_ so hard for stakeholders to understand?
for decades now, every generation of programmers has been larger than the previous one.
every generation of engineering managers has probably grown in a proportionate way.
so, for decades now, every generation of engineering managers has been learning the same basic "how software differs from manufacturing" lessons over and over again.
(partly because business schools don't seem to have learned this lesson yet even once.)
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWait, is this the "amount of programmers in the industry doubles every ${not many} years, therefore software development is dominated by fresh juniors who know fuck all about anything" argument, but applied to engineering management? Can't find the sources for the OG argument about programmers, but it does sound plausible.