Thus at one stroke explaining both the lack of journeyman skills in many IT shops and the corresponding abundance of poor managers.
The skill sets, they ain't the same. Going from programmer to PHB is not an example of natural evolution, but rather of mutation.
As Dilbert once put it, when he was telling his boss he had finally to hang up his coding pen and go into management, "I suppose this means I'll be getting a lobotomy?"
To which the PHB replied, "No. A week of quality training should do it."
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Re:the programming mind
Posted by: Joe Barr on December 02, 2003 10:19 PMThus at one stroke explaining both the lack of journeyman skills in many IT shops and the corresponding abundance of poor managers.
The skill sets, they ain't the same. Going from programmer to PHB is not an example of natural evolution, but rather of mutation.
As Dilbert once put it, when he was telling his boss he had finally to hang up his coding pen and go into management, "I suppose this means I'll be getting a lobotomy?"
To which the PHB replied, "No. A week of quality training should do it."
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