22.2 Managing people
The people working in a software organization are its greatest assets. It is expensive to recruit and retain good people, and it is up to software managers to ensure that the engineers working on a project are as productive as possible. In successful companies and economies, this productivity is achieved when people are respected by the organization and are assigned responsibilities that reflect their skills and experience.
It is important that software project managers understand the technical issues that influence the work of software development. Unfortunately, however, good software engineers are not always good people managers. Software engineers often have strong technical skills but may lack the softer skills that ...
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