How to manage geeks
11 02 09 - 21:16 I've always known that there was a basic disconnect between management and techies, here's an article that spells that out. I found this article on wikihow that spells out some of the basic differences in worldview between management and IT workers. I was particularly impressed by the comment:Geeks must constantly come up with solutions to new problems and rarely ever solve the same problem twice.
Finally, someone acknowledges that there is a certain degree of creativity involved. Isn't it funny how you can't say, "I'm going to be really creative next Tuesday and solve that binomial expansion problem in 4 hours." But most managers try to coerce the project into such terms early in the process, leading to 'lateness' and 'slipped shipping dates'. If they had to ask a novelist to produce under those circumstances, they might get second rate books. I wonder if that leads to some of the second rate software I've seen out there?
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