[b4lancesh33t]

It's just management, after all.

I don't mean to be too flippant, but isn't this whole article an instance of exactly what the author is complaining about? Let's have good managers rather than bad ones. Good managers trust their reports to tell them the constraints of the work and factor that into the team's strategy. Being conversant in the underlying task helps a lot with that, but there are plenty of managers who come from an engineering background who make the same mistakes the author laments.

[nathanaldensr]

That's what I was thinking. Really, the problem with most managers is that they are not empathetic with both the business side and the tech side at the same time. Good managers know how to set expectations and communicate with correct language when talking to either cohort.