Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said
Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.
management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.
And after that I thought like, no, no, I was right. This was correct. We should not have had managers. Not every programmer needs a therapy session with an engineering manager every week.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful
Friedman says the cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful. Hansson says engineering managers are a necessary evil, that 37signals tried them for two years, and that the answer was to go back to leaving programmers alone. One wants managers closer to the work and the other wants fewer of them near it at all.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.