As I was reading I though I could just replace software engineer with knowledge worker and it would stay valid. Then I remembered Peter Drucker wrote an article

As I was reading I though I could just replace software engineer with knowledge worker and it would stay valid. Then I remembered Peter Drucker wrote an article for Forbes in 98 called "Management's New Paradigms" basically covering the same thing. Software engineers are knowledge workers much like marketing specialists and must be managed as such. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1005/6207152a.html http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1005/6207152a.html