Fire Your IT Boss 1
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theodp
theodp writes "Instead of laying off techies who directly help users, Robert X. Cringely argues that the best place to cut IT organizations is generally at the top. One of the great problems in IT management, Cringely says, is that the big bosses typically haven't a clue what is happening, what is needed to happen, and what it all should cost. He issues the following challenge: 'If you are managing an IT shop and can't write the code to render 'hello world' in C, html, php, and pull 'hello world' from a MySQL database using a perl script, then YOU are in the wrong job.' Even with help from Google, Cringely believes many technical managers will fail and should get the boot as a result — you can't manage what you can't understand."
Cringly's not right for his job (Score:1)