Almost every developer has worked for a bad manager. A good manager is a pleasure to work for - a bad one can make your life a misery. In this session I will talk from the point of view of the 'misguided manager' - a manager who, with the best possible intentions, combines the worst of all management practice to make a developer's life complete hell.
Zoë Slattery
Zoë has worked for over 30 years in the IT industry, and during that time she has held a variety of roles ranging from the deeply technical to senior management. As a technology professional she has worked on storage products (disk and tape firmware), high performance computing (FORTRAN) and is currently a committer for both the PHP language and Apache Aries. As a senior manager, she was responsible for leading teams of up to forty engineers.