An unmanaged professional without guidance is about as good as an unmanaged missle that somebody has pulled the trigger on.
Just because a person is a professional does not mean that they do not require guidance in the form of blueprints. Very little of our software, even now is developed with a complete set of blueprints. I too have spent a lot of time fixing things that should work, but didn't and in all cases I found that somebody somewhere had made the decision to take a shortcut in favor of expediting the solution without realizing the ramifications, especially in an enterprise system where many separate systems communicate with each other to make a complete process. Sure we hear talk of SDLC (which I'm very much in favor of) and that is the closest we have right now to a blueprint, when it is followed. But what of the lack of communications between the business stakeholders and the IT people that see themselves as the keeper of the gate. I too have spent a lot of years working on the big picture and I can guarantee you that even now you could drive 1,000 oil liners between the gaps that exist between the business and the IT depts. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:13 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: .NET and other languages for a VFP developer 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 [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/c08f3e6626ea49e4ba84bfcc1cf04...@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.
