Tag archive for “Management”
“All good work is done in defiance of management.”
“The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.”
“Police-mentality planners design workplaces the way they would prisons: Optimized for containment at minimal cost.”
“There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?”
“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”
“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time.”
“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.”
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
“It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.”