The Joel on Software web log, is in my reading list, and the information that Joel Spolsky hands out is priceless…<\/p>\n
This has been sitting in my in queue for a bit, but he works at dissecting the “Program Manager” title, and what it really means in todays business world.<\/p>\n
\nHaving a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t.<\/p>\n
Charles Simonyi, the brilliant programmer who co-invented WYSIWYG word processing, dated Martha Stewart, made a billion dollars off of Microsoft stock and went into space, first tried to solve the Mythical Man Month<\/a> problem of organizing really big software teams by creating one super duper überprogrammer writing the top-level functions, while handing off the implementation of the lower-level functions to a team of grunt junior-programmers as needed. They called this position program manager. <\/em>Simonyi is brilliant, but this idea, not so much. Nobody wanted to be a grunt junior programmer, I guess. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Read more at Joel’s web log…How to be a program manager<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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