You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re Managing Writers

Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by GoToRO on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:11PM (#18378075)

You should not manage anything unless you yourself did that job successfully for 10 years.

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by samatman on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:24PM (#18378136)

Best not build anything that didn't exist ten years ago then.

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by corpMaverick on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:28PM (#18378154)

Think of it as: "Don't manage software engineers unless you were a software engineer for X years"

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by vbuwivbiu on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:17AM (#18380704)

put another way, the best managers came from the shop floor

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