Field Guide to Programmers

Seems like so many developers do a bang up job with writing software, delivering solutions, that someone gets the idea they ought to bump them up the foodchain into management.
Next thing you know, that fantastic developer is sitting in meeting after meeting about… network topology, help desk questions, project management issues, budgets, policies, and so [...]

I enjoy finding new uses for technology, but I really hate it when people play the Innovation Card to push their project of the month/quarter/year.
You now what I’m talking about… It usually begins with an innocent discussion about the need for a new tool or the inadequacies of an existing system. One thing [...]