[Discuss] Software Development (OT?)

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On 9/9/2013 2:27 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I have been developing software for a long time now. I'm finding it is
> getting very difficult. Not for the coding and designing, but for the
> "process." I find that software development has become so "process
> focused" that actual architecture and code barely gets evaluated.

There are two ways to do software: the first happens when savvy 
entrepreneurs hire competent
managers who have a good mix of training and experience, and let them 
run teams in
ways that make coders want to do it faster and better.  I've worked for 
some of them:
they are like a sound conspicuous by its absence. There is a light touch 
of a knowing smile when
I'm staying late again, or the feeling of being special when someone 
says "good job, man, and great code -
take your wife up to the corporate cabin this weekend".

The other way is to appoint mommy's girls and daddy's boys to 
entry-level managerial jobs and assign them
to "motivate" technical professionals who are uninterested in sports 
scores, Miss America's measurements,
and/or sucking up to those whom are planning to claw their way up to PHB 
status in middle management.

I think I can guess which situation you're in. Please leave: trust me 
when I tell you that life is too short
to put up with even one moron who takes revenge on you for being too 
smart to care about the football
scores or a beauty pageant or the old boy network.

> I find it kind of depressing.

Good. That means you didn't drink the Kook-Aid yet. Stay thirsty for 
real challenges and the
good, competent, real-world men and women who can help you succeed at them.

Bill

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Bill Horne
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