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…the most intelligent companies out there, have learned that promoting good developers mean getting a crappy manager and losing a good resource…
Career development as a Software Developer without becoming a manager
Totally agree. When I worked in an organisation where we had a huge range of projects I must have worked with the best part of a dozen different managers. The best managers by far were the non-technical managers. The problem with developers as project managers is that we almost always think that development problems e.g. schedule or thorny technical hitches have development solutions and never look beyond that, throw more code/time at it when sometimes the solution is a people one e.g. do users need this feature at all, does the client have alternative processes that might be easier to model/implement than the ones we’ve chosen.
I was a programmer/manager in my very first job which involved supervising a team of student placements and absolutely hated it. Programmers get their kicks writing code, when you get sucked in to HR, evaluating people, chasing clients made me really uncomfortable and less time for my valuable skills in programming to contribute to the projects. A lose-lose situation for both employer and employee.
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Today, my fiancée broke up with me because of an argument about a printer. FML
Can believe it. Wish I had a pound for every person with IT rage I’ve had to calm down over “it won’t print!”.
(via fuckyeahcomputerscience)
This was like me in university. Almost all CompSci lectures were abstract stuff, infinite memory/bandwidth, more thought experiments than things that *actually run on computers* WTF! This is why high-profile and expensive to hire UK consultancies routinely fuck up on public IT projects - all full of 1st class Honours middle class boys who know ‘ideal’ solutions but haveny a scooby about making things work in the actual world of limits including the crappy,crappy,crappy hardware and low bandwidth that most of their clients have to endure.
