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 sonnyblarney on Sunday November 04, 2018 @07:15PM (#18378842)

I prefer to think of them as carpenters.

Every carpentry job requires solving a lot of problems every day, and using a variety of skills.

But carpenters don't think of themselves as divas or creatives.

In most cases, it's not nearly so romantic.

There are objectives, roadmaps, client needs: it's just a job. Put on your hard hat, get your morning coffee and do it.

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by 0x445442 on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:01PM (#18379558)

I agree with everything you say but what bugs the living hell out of me is this profession's infatuation the new shiny. That along with the almost universal absence of any objective evidence that the new shiny will positively effect the project's bottom line.

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Re:You’re Not Managing a Team of Software Engineers, You’re ... by millisecond on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:56PM (#18379274)

In former times, what we consider the trades were also romanticized. The masons and all that. I expect software to follow the same path and at an accelerated rate but that still gives us a while before we‘re fully normalized.

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