cdonlan 18448 (11/15/2012)

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This subject is worth a book. For starters, I think it goes as deep as our DNA and shared culture. With a nod to blinding ambition and occasional incompetence, I often see middle management not given enough authority to make the decisions necessary to reasonably achieve their software goals; so corners get cut and bad things happen. Occasionally there's a miracle. It's certainly kept me from ever seriously considering the management path.