Jinn of Quality and Risk (2003-Jan-11)

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According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.

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Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2003-Jan-11

Management fear of training

I recently suggested to a manager that if he wanted more productivity from his experienced programmers, he should spend more time, attention, and money to training. He replied, Why bother sending them to expensive classes? The experienced ones just leave here for other shops, so I'd just be training them for other people.

When I interviewed two of his top programmers, they confided that they were seriously considering leaving, which tended to confirm the manager's pessimistic view. But when I asked them why they were leaving, they independently said that management doesn't value our work. What evidence did they have? Both told me that they had repeatedly been turned down on requests to attend courses! — Gerald M. Weinberg, Overstructured Management of Software Engineering, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering, September 1992 [via Karen]

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