The company I work for expects managers of technical folks to keep doing tech work themselves. As a result they don't manage well, and their tech work suffers too. The corner office folks think managing techies is not a full-time job, and want to get the most for their money. But it's a completely short-sighted policy.
We did hire one guy who was an excellent manager, and only did management though he had an engineering degree. For a year his projects were consistently on-time and under-budget. They fired him. Said he wasn't producing enough specs and code.
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The company I work for expects managers of technical folks to keep doing tech work themselves. As a result they don't manage well, and their tech work suffers too. The corner office folks think managing techies is not a full-time job, and want to get the most for their money. But it's a completely short-sighted policy. We did hire one guy who was an excellent manager, and only did management though he had an engineering degree. For a year his projects were consistently on-time and under-budget. They fired him. Said he wasn't producing enough specs and code.
setting up a panel of scholars and computer experts, including Microsoft officials in order
Shouldn't that be "scholars and computer experts and Microsoft officials", since the third group is mutually exclusive with the first two?