How to Manage Programmers

In his blog post “How to Manage Programmers” Tuomas Pelkonen discuss how to deal with programmers in a software project. Everybody knows that programmers are probably the hardest people to manage, because the way they work is so different from the norm. The things that are important to them are not usually important to business people and vice versa. Programmers are also delicate little creatures that remember every single mistake managers make. I have seen numerous cases of mismanagement that it really raises the question whose fault is it?