Comment on Whiny US Software Developers by Kerry Buckley

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:52:49 -0800

I'm from the UK rather than the US, but most of the people I hear complaining are those who love programming, and are sick of management believing that the actual programming is easy, and separable from design.

What I see a lot of is people being told that it's not economical for them to write code any more, and they need to just produce design documentation for implementation by low-cost subcontractors. Anyone with a modicum of clue knows that this is not a sensible way to develop software, and when the size of the team inevitably snowballs, the management response is often to take some of the remaining technical people and retrain them as project managers, to try and rein in the chaos.