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Managing Software Engineers by Philip Greenspun (philg@mit.edu) Sumbitted on: 2000-10-22 CCM Home : ASJ : One Article -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Greenspun founded ArsDigita Corporation and was its CEO from inception until it reached $20 million/year in revenue. Currently, he is Chairman of ArsDigita and teaches computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Why an article on managing people? And one written by someone with training in computer science rather than business administration? There are thousands of books on the best ways to manage people. Many of these books are excellent, having been written by people who've devoted their lives to the discipline. Software engineering is different. Software engineering is different because only the best people significantly contribute to achievement. Traditional management texts assume a distribution of talent among the workers. Each worker is contributing some