Why the /s? You're mixing apples and oranges I am afraid. Being a consumer of some product, is not the same as engineering the product. So you have the latest iPhone, good for you - still does not make you an engineer, nor do you have a clue what goes into designing, conceptualising and building a product. And yes, those of us with a bit more experience in the field, remember the times when engineering was done by people who had passion for it, not people desperate to make a career and income upgrade through bullshitting in meetings. For engineering a great product, as we can see with the great entshittification of pretty much everything today, Boeing being the most dangerous example, it's not just that the performative workers are being a drag on productivity and profitability, they are now also endangering everyone. I sure hope some idiot MBA does not come up with an idea of a medical PO or scrum master.
One does not need 20 years of programming experience to identify and fire a shitty employee that coasts by constantly asking others for help with their job. There are tons of bad programmers just like there are tons of people bad at other jobs. Those employees are often a net negative for the team by constantly wasting someone elses' time.
On a side note, your constant whining about "MBAs" and "scrum masters"... it does not make you sound like a professional or reasonable person.
This black-white view of world, that "all MBAs are bad". Whoa.
(Just because I know where you will take it: (sadly?) I dont have an MBA. I am also not a scrum master)
No, please, instead of pointing out everything that is wrong in your reasoning: Please read a referent book about managing software development teams. For example "Peopleware", or "Dynamics of Software Development". Both a bit older, but valuable classics. The second one actually written by a relatively less technical author, a product manager at Microsoft. Maybe then you'll understand a bit more. By the way - I am not the only one complaining about the MBAs. Remember when that plane door fell off? US Congress was holding a hearing about that. And a number of US Congressmen (or were they senators?), people who literally never have the discussions that you and are having, kept asking one simple question: "How come the CEO of Boeing is not an ENGINEER"? It's so natural, that even those disconnected politicians made the obvious connection. Look it up in the archives.
Why the /s? You're mixing apples and oranges I am afraid. Being a consumer of some product, is not the same as engineering the product. So you have the latest iPhone, good for you - still does not make you an engineer, nor do you have a clue what goes into designing, conceptualising and building a product. And yes, those of us with a bit more experience in the field, remember the times when engineering was done by people who had passion for it, not people desperate to make a career and income upgrade through bullshitting in meetings. For engineering a great product, as we can see with the great entshittification of pretty much everything today, Boeing being the most dangerous example, it's not just that the performative workers are being a drag on productivity and profitability, they are now also endangering everyone. I sure hope some idiot MBA does not come up with an idea of a medical PO or scrum master.
One does not need 20 years of programming experience to identify and fire a shitty employee that coasts by constantly asking others for help with their job. There are tons of bad programmers just like there are tons of people bad at other jobs. Those employees are often a net negative for the team by constantly wasting someone elses' time.
On a side note, your constant whining about "MBAs" and "scrum masters"... it does not make you sound like a professional or reasonable person. This black-white view of world, that "all MBAs are bad". Whoa.
(Just because I know where you will take it: (sadly?) I dont have an MBA. I am also not a scrum master)
No, please, instead of pointing out everything that is wrong in your reasoning: Please read a referent book about managing software development teams. For example "Peopleware", or "Dynamics of Software Development". Both a bit older, but valuable classics. The second one actually written by a relatively less technical author, a product manager at Microsoft. Maybe then you'll understand a bit more. By the way - I am not the only one complaining about the MBAs. Remember when that plane door fell off? US Congress was holding a hearing about that. And a number of US Congressmen (or were they senators?), people who literally never have the discussions that you and are having, kept asking one simple question: "How come the CEO of Boeing is not an ENGINEER"? It's so natural, that even those disconnected politicians made the obvious connection. Look it up in the archives.
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