From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ea968aeb8c7f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d71a6822cd2fec5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: "Graham C. Hughes" Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor? Date: 1997/03/17 Message-ID: <87iv2qt1lb.fsf@A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 226290409 Sender: graham@A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu References: <5g7u24$1jeg@uni.library.ucla.edu> Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar writes: Robert> I know many programmers feel this way, but I certainly would Robert> not hire them. Pretty strong central management is essential Robert> to software quality in my view. Strong perhaps. Numerous probably not. Otherwise decisions much go through too many levels and too many ``adjustments''. Certainly when your administrative staff outnumbers your programmers, you have a very big problem. More generally, when the overseers outnumber the workers, large problems occur. Unfortunately, this situation is far more common than people give credit for. I believe Parkinson had it right, in _Parkinson's_Law_and_Other_Studies_ _in_Administration_. Administration grows without bound, and without regard to the amount of work being done. - -- Graham Hughes http://A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu/~graham/ -- MIME & PGP mail OK. PGP Key fingerprint = E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBMy3zqSqNPSINiVE5AQHMqgQArGUidoFa/cX0VYEzpGhXfsfqkWYyyo4W 76KR4xpVPzGwfx4F4uCZFtSV8lwOsG3ZGjgapxyg3INLbavsPblcGsQQAXYAjta7 dYRRwR1hBpBgiBIBEz6FsBz2jOu3u1OOhe0qVh/2Jg1kk/SFAYI3JVS9fUOyuXzM 9kAZvIPi8WM= =jCZz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----