晓星推荐了一篇文章,觉得蛮有意思,转载一下:
最近读了一篇非常有趣的文章,原文是英文,和大家共享,其大概意思是:
管程序员就象是养蜂人管蜜蜂一样。养蜂人怎么管的呢?养蜂人其实并不能和蜜蜂沟通,谁会说“蜂语”啊。但他们可以把蜜蜂放在一个舒适的蜂房里,这样他们自动就会采蜜了,你顺手就可以拿走蜂蜜。:)
对程序员是类似的,把他们弄到一个舒服的环境里:工资比他们想要的高,以至于不会用了(当然,比你的预算还是要便宜);这些蜜蜂会嘤嘤嗡嗡自己形成社会,
程序员会自己评价自己,就象沉迷在打游戏里的家伙一样,谁的话都听不进去,就只愿意写好的软件-这和艺术家和战士一样。
软件公司怎么失控的和完蛋的?通常是来了一个有个性的管理人员,这老兄一看,这帮程序员怎么这么……不顺眼啊?脏兮兮,乱糟糟,不配合,他们看起来是多无
趣的一群人啊!最糟糕的是,他们还笑话你!于是对他们进行管理……这下规范了,但是,程序员们被伤害了,他们被要求要参加会议,做计划,写报告,严格按照
流程,千万千万不要去动别人的代码!程序员觉得自己就象过起了外星人的生活……于是,最好的程序员走了,有的开始怠工,甚至破坏……蜂房毁了。管理者舒服
了,因为好像事情开始受控了,大家开始打领带了;但是Bug开始成堆出现,市场丢失,最后,关门大吉。
英文原文:
How Software Companies Die
By Orson Scott Card
The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and
marketing types - and vice versa. Programming is the Great Game. It
consumes you, body and soul. When you’re caught up in it, nothing else
matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that
you’re a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the
average first grader, and judging from the number of pizza boxes lying
around, it must be spring already. But you don’t care, because your
program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. You won.
You’re aware that some people think you’re a nerd. So what? They’re not
players. They’ve never jousted with Windows or gone hand to hand with
DOS. To them C++ is a decent grade, almost a B - not a language. They
barely exist. Like soldiers or artists, you don’t care about the
opinions of civilians. You’re building something intricate and fine.
They’ll never understand it.