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If the managers are not developers then they are by definition incompetent to manage a software project like this. I have met a lot of competent managers that w
by malandrew 13y ago
If the managers are not developers then they are by definition incompetent to manage a software project like this. I have met a lot of competent managers that were not technical, but I have not met one that was competent enough to manage a project involving legacy systems with poorly written code and little to no testing or automation. If you are not a developer, you simply cannot understand these types of problems enough to manage it.
- hga 13y agoWe can infer from their mistakes, which GVIrish succinctly lists, that the managers in CMS on up to the White House weren't developers, otherwise they would have instinctively known that e.g. requirements had to be frozen for some time to give the developers time to finish implementing them.