Jan9

Programming or Not: Don’t Think of Herding Cats

Just read this on Slashdot and couldn’t help myself (it works in every field where brains not mass are a factor):

Herding cats is hard because you are using the wrong management technique. You herd cattle (and sheep and goats and pigs etc.), you do *not* herd cats. Cats, you put them in the general area of the mice and let them do what they are good at. Micromanagement of cats is a losing proposition.

picked up from here (Slashdot.com)

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Georg first started with programming in 1981. Did some machine engineering between 1985 and 1990. Then wasted an entire decade on DTP (Desktop Publishing), pre-press and printing. Since 2000, Georg escaped the Gutenberg territory to focus on web sites development and on-demand software applications programming. Don’t tell Georg that software comes in a box…