Re:Fixing All the Bugs Won't Solve All the Problems – Deming...
by roenxi on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:19AM
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> Cisco fared quite well on net...
Incompetent management is something of the norm in software engineering. Large successful companies have a deepish management hierarchy (4+ levels) and the competence of the org is capped by the least competent manager in the chain - who tends to be nontechnical and confused. Small companies have the ability to be more competent, but correspondingly tend not to have the resources to be influential players in the market.
I would expect that typical - maybe even above average - performance by software companies is accompanied by some breathtaking stories of management failure. If it were possible for a company to not make any mistakes in its software development it'd probably be a never-before-seen fountain of wealth creation.
Incompetent management is something of the norm in software engineering. Large successful companies have a deepish management hierarchy (4+ levels) and the competence of the org is capped by the least competent manager in the chain - who tends to be nontechnical and confused. Small companies have the ability to be more competent, but correspondingly tend not to have the resources to be influential players in the market.
I would expect that typical - maybe even above average - performance by software companies is accompanied by some breathtaking stories of management failure. If it were possible for a company to not make any mistakes in its software development it'd probably be a never-before-seen fountain of wealth creation.