[plinkplonk]

then he probably shouldn't be managing people who do (programming)

[giantg2]

Insert NCO joke about who gets things done...

[newprint]

here is a problem (I'm software engineer). I have seen multi million software project run into to the ground by a very very experience software engineers. Why do you thing he will do worst ?

[speedgoose]

He is likely to do better, but it's not much of a sales pitch.

[giantg2]

Yeah, it'd be easy for me to get a promotion if all it took was pointing out the worst examples and saying, "See, I can't do worse than that!". But the world doesn't work that way, except maybe for two party system politicians...