From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor?
Date: 1997/03/22
Date: 1997-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.859061288@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5gtadf$4fe$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
Richard O'Keefe said
<<I think the major difference here is that when Robert Dewar says "strong
management is essential to software quality" he means strong COMPETENT
management, where competence is part of what it _means_ to be "strong".>>
Plus lots of other (iin my view) exactly appropriate observations.
Yes, indeed when I say someone is a strong chess player, I mean he is good
at playing chess, not that he can break his opponents neck with a single
karate chop. So, yes strong here is almost a synonym for competence.
I do see the confusion, in that people can easily use the phrase strong
management to refer to intrusive and inflexible management. In fact the
job of a competent manager is to make everything work smoothly without
being seen to be intrusive or inflexible, much as a good teacher following
the Socratic method guides the discussion of a class, without being seen
to be dictating it.
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1997-03-12 0:00 Do I Really Need A Supervisor? Auntie Alias
1997-03-13 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Randall Edick
1997-03-14 0:00 ` David Taylor
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Randall Edick
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Randall Edick
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-03-24 0:00 ` the one and only real true kibo
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-21 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-03-14 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes
1997-03-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <01bc3276$57fc1800$0902a8c0@alice>
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-20 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-03-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-25 0:00 ` L. Darrell Ray
1997-03-27 0:00 ` duncan
1997-04-10 0:00 ` BAT0000000
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Michael Malak
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-13 0:00 ` David Brown
1997-03-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-17 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-17 0:00 ` antialias
1997-03-18 0:00 ` nasser
1997-03-20 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-19 0:00 ` John Apa
1997-03-19 0:00 ` antialias
[not found] ` <33301E64.110E@delphi.dasd.honeywe <3330BE71.695@earthlink.net>
1997-03-20 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-03-20 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-14 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-03-21 0:00 ` antialias
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