Well, that bit about management is true but sucks.<p>I saved my previous employer 60k years in running cost on my first three month on the job, and couldn&#x27;t get a 10% raise out of it. Just promises and nice words. Well guess what? If you pay programmers as blue collars and get them to work as blue collar in a &quot;software factory&quot; paying them blue collar wages, you are in a self fulfilling profecy about their value.