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Subject:Re: Is this just the way things are? From:"Elna Tymes" <etymes -at- lts -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:23:35 -0800
Catherine Scribner wrote:
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> Is this just the way things are in software companies? A colleague tells me
> that the industry is too young to have been able to attract managers that
> know
> anything about management.
>
> Is bad management just the price one pays for working in this industry?
Catherine -
It's endemic. It gives you "character lines" and war stories. And you do the best you can to
improve the process, and then be very grateful that the economy is so strong that there are
other jobs available.
