Programmers as Managers

Why programmers become bad managers

Managers in the technology industry have a tooling crisis. Typically, teams end up being run by engineers who are promoted into management positions, and may receive excellent guidance and training or none at all. This results in a wild disparity in managerial skills in our industry. Some are taught the tools that they need to become experts at their job, whereas many are metaphorically placed in front of the text editor with no idea what to type.

If we were to pick an arbitrary piece of software that we wanted to understand, we might ask: