Comment by ChuckMcM

That was an interesting piece of journalism. I think though that more and more VPs and SVPs actually do know what 'code' is. While there was a time when it was all mysterious to upper management we're rapidly filling in folks in senior positions (up to CEO even). What new coders don't always get though is that there aren't a lot of new problems in computer science or developing code. Sure people have tried different methodologies to get around the problems in different ways, but the problems were the same (how do I test, how do I track defects, how do I schedule, Etc.) This is good and bad, good because companies get more effective at getting things done, and bad because it can lead to some tension if you can't explain in a quantifiable way why the new way is better than the old way.