In software, it's particularly tricky, though. Because of the huge disparity in productivity, promoting your least competent programmers to management is actually a better choice than promoting the competent although neither choice is particularly good.
This is part of a much larger rant that may or may not eventually resolve itself into a book about what it takes to be a good manager of software developers and how those skills are different from both what it takes to be a good programmer and what it takes to be a good general-purpose manager.
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Date: 2006-01-10 11:37 pm (UTC)In software, it's particularly tricky, though. Because of the huge disparity in productivity, promoting your least competent programmers to management is actually a better choice than promoting the competent although neither choice is particularly good.
This is part of a much larger rant that may or may not eventually resolve itself into a book about what it takes to be a good manager of software developers and how those skills are different from both what it takes to be a good programmer and what it takes to be a good general-purpose manager.