From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T04:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Unit tests ... not just for the young

On Thursday, 10 June 2004 at  3:54:02 +0900, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> At 23:21 09/06/2004 +0900, you wrote:
> 
> I started a company in 1987. I believe that by 1993 we must
> have been 15 people. I was a programmer. A version 2 of our
> major product was starting. A year after I realized that there
> was an issue. Informal communication was not working anymore.
> Bug fixing was constantly delayed. Deadlines were missed.
> I then realize that there was a need for somebody to organize
> thing so that the product would survive. That is when I
> became a manager I guess. A few years latter I was hired as
> VP Engineerer of some startup. After the Internet bubble
> explosion I worked fixing my old house. Now I am back to
> programming. I have always loved that. But at some point I
> really felt like there was a need for a manager, I loved
> the result of programming (The Product) more than my
> contributions to it and I kind of put aside my programming
> pleasure to help the product succeed. That worked, very
> well, I don't regret it at all.
> 
> Not mentioning the fact that as VP Engineerer, I was making
> more money that will ever be possible for a programmer in
> my country, France. I needed that money to fix my old house.
> 
> This story may give you some ideas about why somebody would
> move away from something she/he really like.
> 

Nice story. So, was it the money or the rescuing of the product.
If they paid you less to manage the product, would you have
switched from being a developer?

-- 
Jim Freeze
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