[meatysnapper]

Management has two goals: 1) Make themselves look like they contribute value: Micro-manage projects, track time spent, etc. Even if there's nothing achieved, they can claim to be doing something and organizing meetings. 2) Swap out programmers like cogs in a machine. 3) There is no incentive to have good quality code because chances are everybody will be off the project in a year or so, so you take credit for the success and place the failure on the poor SOBs who have to maintain the system.

[cyan_atrus]

i think you might be misunderstanding the point of managers..

[socceroos]

True, but he does paint an interesting, if not accurate picture of a significant proportion of the managers out there.