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[rivka]

[Poll #649524]

I set question #1 up as a forced choice because I suspected that, otherwise, everyone's answer would be "it depends." I'd be delighted to entertain further discussion of what it depends on, and why, in the comments section - but I also wanted people's gut reaction if they were forced to choose one or the other.

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Not just there, either. Ever read The Peter Principle?

[bsquad.livejournal.com]

No, but I've had it summarized.

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.