On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
> 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.
Ah, so there is no such thing as a professional programmer?
I've spent the better part of my career cleaning up poorly-written
software by all sorts of programmers, not just the corporate drones you
mention. Some were high-priced consultants; some were independent developers;
and still others were start-up teams. None of them could blame their crap on
"incompetent managers" - they didn't have managers. They were supposed to be
professionals, but they were not.
-- Ed Leafe
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