Mastering PHP Design Patterns

Uneducated manager syndrome

Has your manager ever built a web app themselves? I find that this is a fairly important characteristic for a manager to have. The same way a junior doctor will report to a doctor who has been through the process of being a junior doctor themselves, or a teacher will report to a head teacher who themselves has been a teacher, a software developer should report to someone who has been through that process themselves.

Obviously, in small teams (for example, a small design house that does web development on the side), an engineering manager might not be strictly necessary. This works well where managers do understand the need to defer decisions to the programmers where necessary. However, as soon as things scale up, there ...