I've been trying to keep my mouth shut this time around, but this is one of the biggest things that frustrates me about the software business.
To me there is no such thing as incompetent programmers. Only incompetent managers because I believe it is the place of the manager to pick people with good sound business and software skills and then mentor them and teach them the things that they need to know and enforce quality standards on their team. To often managers rely on hr to sift through the resumes when hr doesn't even have a clue how to read between the lines. But it gets even worse because we will never have reliable software practices anywhere in the world until we begin focusing on proper engineering procedures and quit wasting time on inventing the next greatest development tool. By proper engineering procedures I mean we should think of menus as doors and reports as windows similar to what the building industry does. Would you think of building a house, or office building without driving every nail in your mind first? Why do we have fly by the seat of your pants methodology like all the agile, waterfall, etc. instead of focusing on building quality and reliabilty into the project in the first place. Bottom line, if you are a manager and you are passing the buck about lousy programmers, you are a lousy manager because it is your job to be the mentor. Virgil http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com > Q: What is the most often-overlooked risk in software engineering? > A: Incompetent programmers. There are estimates that the number of programmers needed in the U.S. exceeds 200,000. This is entirely misleading. It is not a quantity problem; we have a quality problem. One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. Hiring more bad programmers will just increase our perceived need for them. If we had more good programmers, and could easily identify them, we would need fewer, not more. Well, I guess we should be glad there are incompetent programmers in the world to make us look good! Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/9cd9b6315896427893355c05b28c4...@bierschwc0bba6 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
