I agree with everything in this article. However, software developers may be craftspeople, but an infinitessimally small fraction of them are treated like craft

I agree with everything in this article. However, software developers may be craftspeople, but an infinitessimally small fraction of them are treated like craftspeople by the businesses that employ them The reason software engineers want to push decisions to their managers is that their managers believe in nonsense like slicing up tasks into their tiniest constituent parts and meticulously estimating how much time they will take. Practices like lean and scrum and kanban are managerial conventional wisdom about how to manage a factory, not craftsperson conventional wisdom about how to make good things efficiently As long as the people running the show are going to hold their people responsible to fiddly metrics and demand to know every detail of decisions that affect how their software people are spending their time, they will act according to those incentives, avoid making decisions where possible, quibble about every little detail Software should be a craft. Treating it that way produces better software. In order to foment a mindset of a craftsperson, you must treat them with the trust and respect that we give to craftspeople. Most modern humans don't even have a script for interacting with craftspeople these days, and business jocks drunk on rebranded Taylorism certainly don't apply one when managing people they view as a means to better valuation