On 9/9/2013 2:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I have been developing software for a long time now. I'm finding it is
getting very difficult. Not for the coding and designing, but for the
"process." I find that software development has become so "process
focused" that actual architecture and code barely gets evaluated.
There are two ways to do software: the first happens when savvy
entrepreneurs hire competent
managers who have a good mix of training and experience, and let them
run teams in
ways that make coders want to do it faster and better. I've worked for
some of them:
they are like a sound conspicuous by its absence. There is a light touch
of a knowing smile when
I'm staying late again, or the feeling of being special when someone
says "good job, man, and great code -
take your wife up to the corporate cabin this weekend".
The other way is to appoint mommy's girls and daddy's boys to
entry-level managerial jobs and assign them
to "motivate" technical professionals who are uninterested in sports
scores, Miss America's measurements,
and/or sucking up to those whom are planning to claw their way up to PHB
status in middle management.
I think I can guess which situation you're in. Please leave: trust me
when I tell you that life is too short
to put up with even one moron who takes revenge on you for being too
smart to care about the football
scores or a beauty pageant or the old boy network.
I find it kind of depressing.
Good. That means you didn't drink the Kook-Aid yet. Stay thirsty for
real challenges and the
good, competent, real-world men and women who can help you succeed at them.
Bill
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Bill Horne
339-364-8487
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