The Scrumlord regime | deadSimpleTech
This leads to one very obvious conclusion: you cannot afford to have managers who might even remotely identify with the people whom they're managing. It doesn't necessarily matter that engineers are having their brains turned to sludge, producing slowly and insipidly and getting almost no work done. Managers who understand and care about engineering work might find common ground with the people they're managing and push back against your ideas. Even worse, they might actually understand that what you're asking for is immoral, impossible or insane.