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No one said it isn't hard to manage or managers in general are idiots. I was just clarifying that the decline of decent software practices isn't a scale issue,
by seivan 13y ago
No one said it isn't hard to manage or managers in general are idiots.
I was just clarifying that the decline of decent software practices isn't a scale issue, it's management issues.
That tends to be because of non-technical managers/superiors.
- ArekDymalski 13y agoI don't think it's a matter of non-technicality. You can find non-technical founders who are doing more or less well (Squidoo, Yammer, Groupon for example) and there's a lot of companies managed by engineers which are falling. I think it's a matter of lacking general management skills as well as number and level of complexity of problems you have to solve when you go up.
- kamaal 13y agoYou don't need to be a coder to be winning in this game. But you definitely need be somebody who gets the job done in whatever their area of expertise is. Those are the kind of people you quoted in your example. There are somethings you can't teach a person. They have to learn by doing or go through the grind.