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I think the article starts to highlight the real issue, when it compares with other industries, but then ducks out at the last moment. So I will try my best to fill in: In all industries, in all professions, there are a range of abilities for those working within it. From the truly gifted, to the hard-working reliable folk who mostly deliver consistently, to those who need support and guidance to deliver well consistently, to those who deliver sometimes, to those who frankly cannot and will not deliver despite support time and guidance. I have met incompetent doctors, unreliable engineers, lawyers you would not trust to compile a shopping list, and programmers you would not ask to develop any kind of program beyond hello world. I have also met people I could always learn from, and they too remain fixed on the idea they too are always learning, improving, on a knowledge and experience journey, without a fixed endpoint. A final point - no one is truly useless, you just cannot find a good match for their skills and experience within your team at that point in time. |