Le 2011-11-14 05:50, Invisible a écrit :
> On 13/11/2011 10:08 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
>
> Interesting.
>
> I love how I read "you should be able to explain your ideas to a bright
> 8 year old or to the CFO", and I immediately wondered whether the CFO
> would be smart enough to comprehend something a small child can
> understand. ;-)

Technical issues?  They're probably equivalent.  However, an 8 year old, 
would probably have problems understanding how to hide profits in a 
tax-haven country...

>
> In my limited experience, managers are astonishingly stupid people.
> (Depending on how high up they are, generally. Some of the ones lower
> down actually *have* a clue...)

While managers are sometimes hired from the "old boys' network" and make 
Dilbert's Pointy-Haired Boss look like a rocket scientist, as someone 
once pointed out to me, managers have to supervise a team of people,or 
in the case of upper management, teams of teams.  They CAN NOT possibly 
know more than every member of each of these teams.  It's not their 
role.  And, as you point out, the further up the food chain you go, the 
less they know about each individual's field of experitse.  Besides, 
someone who did know more than all of her team members would be a 
horrible manager, micro-managing every one.

This, unfortunately means, that they will sometimes misundertand your 
explanations and will have to go to their management with their flawed 
view of your concerns, and may return with what they think is a "good 
compromise" that is totally unworkable.

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