The Digg Crew wants to hear your thoughts!
Please take our short survey about Digg and potential feature ideas.
5 Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software
cio.com — It's hard enough for managers to motivate and track employees whose livelihood depends on doing a good job. Imagine the project management task for Linux, the free software operating system. Linus Torvalds explains how he keeps the people and software on-track, with the software quality the operating system demands.
sjvn- 69 diggs
- digg it
- craigmjackson, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Politeness sucks for accomplishing things. Too bad I can't use the brutal honesty method at work. At least not as much as for an open source project.
- gandhii, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1The part about this way of management that many don't understand is that it depends on the manager being equally brutally honest about themselves and always keep an open mind on the possibility that they might be wrong.
By the way.. what the hell does CIO stand for? I couldn't find it mentioned any where on that site.- StanDevia, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Chief Information Officer
- virtualonliner, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1"Be honest—sometimes painfully honest".
Boy, how has he learned to be that! - daftman, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1In order for many of us to be ruthless like Torvald but still have the community respect, we have to be ***** good and right 99% of the time.
Though he did make a blunder with that Bitlocker thing.
One problem that Torvald don't have to face that many CIOs do is motivation. Most people who write Linux do it out of passion, not necessity. This means that Linux code is at higher quality than those done between 9-5
Digg is coming to a city (and computer) near you! Check out all the details on our 
© Digg Inc. 2008 — Content posted by Digg users is