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You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords to discover other works by this author. | From The Bit Bucket A Musings on Engineering Supervision and Management Francis W. Porretto Writing as The Curmudgeon Emeritus Smashwords Edition Copyright C 2010 by Francis W. Porretto Cover art by Donna Casey http Discover other works by Francis W. Porretto at Smashwords Edition License Notice Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book please return to Smashwords to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support. O Foreword A sense of responsibility can compel a man to do terrible things. One of the most terrible of all is to assume responsibility for the deeds and foibles of others. Many years ago your Curmudgeon was induced to accept a managerial position in his field of software engineering. Mind you he hadn t applied for the post nor had he demonstrated any qualities that ought to have predisposed his own management to prefer him for it. They needed a new front-line manager your Curmudgeon was the most senior and best-thought-of software engineer around and no one else in the vicinity was anywhere near being qualified for the post. The answer popped out of the slot in their heads whence all half-baked ideas emerge. Thus a legend was born. For your Curmudgeon refused to accept the position until he d been promised a unique privilege he insisted on remaining a contributing technologist rather than becoming a pure paper shuffler. His management loath to court one of the explosions of wrath for which your Curmudgeon is regionally well known agreed without hesitation. What follows are essays on a little-understood discipline the arcane some would say black art of dealing with massive technological challenges while supervising a bunch of intolerable primadonnas and coping with middle and upper managers who think