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Software Management
Joel Spolsky’s company Fog Creek has just launched the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program.
In his introductory article, he states the following:
“Now, there’s nothing wrong with promoting a programmer to management, but management is a different job and a requires different skills from programming. Many people who are excellent developers are lousy managers, and promoting someone out of a job that they love doing and are good at doing into a job that they hate and are not good at doesn’t make sense.”
and..
“We don’t really want to hire MBAs, because there’s too much evidence that MBAs substitute book-learnin’ for common sense or experience.”
I’ve already written about my own experience of the first quote (somewhere in this blog!) and I once knew a senior systems engineer who had views similar to the second quote, although his view was more along the lines that one’s usefulness in a business was inversely correlated with one’s qualifications. Anyhow, bravo to Joel.
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