Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

[Jason Edwards]

Here's an opinion article about managing geeks:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyId=14&pageNumber=1

I think it pretty accurately describes the issues surrounding managing
"IT people."

Jason

[littleidea]

Jason,

I think that is an excellent article.

Which is why I posted it in the 'Finally, someone said it'

Ironically, I posted it in sl-agile and we ended up discussing the
whole notion of stereo types. Some of them seemed to have a quite
different reaction to the article than we did.

Cheers,
Andrew

On Sep 18, 10:25 am, Jason Edwards <jtan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's an opinion article about managing geeks:
>

> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_t...

[Mike Moore]

The author looks to be a customer of the following product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbHU8qOy2c4

[Todd Cox]

Truly, this product is the ultimate in really bad gifts.

 

Plus, it doesn’t even do what it says on the box.  These people need to learn the difference between a goatee (no mustache) and a Vandyke(stache-having).

 

From: vel...@googlegroups.com [mailto:vel...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Moore
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:42 PM
To: vel...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [VeloSLC] Re: Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

 

The author looks to be a customer of the following product:

 

[Spencer Christensen]

littleidea wrote:
>
> Jason,
>
> I think that is an excellent article.
>
> Which is why I posted it in the 'Finally, someone said it'
>
> Ironically, I posted it in sl-agile and we ended up discussing the
> whole notion of stereo types. Some of them seemed to have a quite
> different reaction to the article than we did.

I think there is a lot of connection with the points of this article and
those written up by Eric S Raymond in his essay "How to Become a Hacker"
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html). Espeicialy in points
4 and 5 (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#believe4).

--
Spencer Christensen
Software Infrastructure Team Leader
Backcountry.com

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