Don't annoy the pigs
Posted by admin, Wed Apr 12 08:38:44 UTC 2006
The Development Abstraction Layer – Joel on Software
Management’s primary responsibility to create the illusion that a software company can be run by writing code, because that’s what programmers do. And while it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it’s unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
You really have to read the whole article that Joel wrote. It’s scary how many times you can recognize companies (and people) that you’ve worked for/with in the past.