Why are people more important then technology? |
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| People are people | Most discussions of software engineering concentrate on technological
aspects. Because we are technicians we tend to view everything under this
headings. Technical problems are easier to solve, too.
If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But everytime we talk about these problems, people are involved. Every technology is used by people. Every technology is made by people. So you can't have the technology without the people. Even if you don't like (most of) them. I can't repeat this too often. Sometimes we forget that everything centers around people, because our society isn't aware of this, too. Take a few books about management and have a close look. How much space in this book is used for technical things? How often are organizations (or part of them) treated like pieces on a chessboard? It should be perfectly natural that management is focused on people. But this isn't the case. The situation reminds me of a very old joke where someone is seeking his lost key not at the place he lost it but at some other location because "there is some light". Because we understand technology far more easily than people we concentrate
on technology.
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| Summary | Even if you're more interested in technology than in people you can't ignore them. So you better know how to handle them. If you are a project manager and you don't care for people: better search yourself another job, for project management, you're incompetent. | |
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| Confusius, hey says: | People are created equal: they are all the same to me | |
| Copyright: Volker Dittmar | ||
| Created: 1999-12-18, last modified: 2000-01-25 |