14 Apr
2005
14 Apr
'05
5:38 p.m.
Dwight wrote:
The only think I thought, as I read his point of
view, was
that since he was so great at coding and projects at uSoft,
why has the product been so shitty for the years he was there
and finally looks like it has begin to stablize once he was gone?
I can't explain any putative stabilization after, but certainly a
company with good technical managers can still produce bad software.
There's no way a good manager can force a "mongolian horde" programming
team (also sometimes known as an "army of golems") to produce a good
product. It's hard enough to do that with a small team of carefully
selected expert programmers, and there seems to be a very limited
supply of those.
Eric