I came across this blog on managers of software development.... http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/asshole-driven-development/
Going from the feedback it hit a raw nerve amongst a lot of software developers. Dozens of management styles are described there... I am wondering how many of these others on the list have encountered!!!! I would say this is an important tehcnical subject as in my experience the managers competence (or lack of it) often makes the biggest difference to how a project works...to put it mildly. The ones I have encountered are: 1 - DMWD - Dead Man Walking development. This approach is frequently used for projects at companies who are in the process of outsourcing development jobs. Some of its highlights involve training your eventual replacement and pretending that they dont suck so as to be a team player. 2 - Everyone is an Architect Development (EAD) 3 - TDD - Technology Driven Development asks what technology we know how to use, then designs a system around it. Need a backend for your e-commerce site? Sure, we can do that with Foxpro! 4 - BLD: Blurring Layer Developement. Usually used in DUH! and SWAPIT. Developers are not allowed to directly contact the persons responsable everyone is only allowed to contact the next link in the chain, who thinks he´s important enough not to change the wording in the question and adding his own doubts to the question instead of just forwarding the question. This results in a completely different question answered correctly but the answer gets blurred also resulting in the developer waiting five days to obtain the wrong answer to a question he has never asked. 5 - Not allowed to do development (NADD) - somewhat similar to CYAE. No actual development is tolerated by the development team. Also some quite hair-rasing stories about software managers and projects in the creation of the Macintosh at http://folklore.org/index.py John _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: Offtopic@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
