Quote Originally Posted by snowman View Post
I've not read it, but the 'explanations' sound more like excuses for oddball results, which suggest a more fundamental flaw.

It reads remarkably like the manager of our IT team in India who has an excuse for every delay and failure and so never does anything about the systemic failings of his department - Sorry, bad start to the day

M.
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Putt's Law

The book proposes 'Putt's Law' and 'Putt's Corollary':

  • Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."
  • Putt's Corollary: "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion."with incompetence being "flushed out of the lower levels" of a technocratic hierarchy, ensuring that technically competent people remain directly in charge of the actual technology while those without technical competence move into management.