How did software companies die?

I recently read a very interesting article in English, sharing it with you, which roughly means:

Programmers are like beekeepers and bees. How do beekeepers manage it? Beekeepers cannot communicate with bees. Who will say "Bee. But they can put the bees in a comfortable beehive so that they will automatically collect the honey, and you can take the honey. :)
It is similar for programmers to bring them into a comfortable environment: the salary is higher than they want, so they won't use it (of course, it is cheaper than your budget ); these bees will cool on themselves to form a society, and programmers will review themselves, just like a guy addicted to playing games, who cannot hear anything, just the software you want to write-the same as the artist and the warrior.
How can software companies get out of control and finished? It is usually a personal manager. This guy looks at how these programmers are so ...... Not pleasing to the eye? Dirty, messy, and out-of-box. They look boring! The worst thing is that they still laugh at you! Manage them ...... This is a standard, but programmers are hurt. They are asked to attend meetings, make plans, write reports, and strictly follow the process. Do not touch others' code! Programmers think they are like living an alien life ...... As a result, the best programmers have gone, and some have begun to neglect or even destroy ...... The beehive is destroyed. The manager is comfortable, because it seems that things are starting to be controlled, and everyone is starting to tie the tie. However, bugs are beginning to emerge, and the market is lost. Finally, it is very important.

Original English:
Software-how software companies die
By Orson Scott Card
The environment that nutures creative programmers kills Management and Marketing types-and vice versa. programming is the great game. it consumes you, body and soul. when you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. when you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and judging from the number Pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring already. but you don't care, because your program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. you won. you're aware that some people think you're a nerd. so what? They're not players. they 've never jousted with windows or gone hand to hand with DOS. to them C ++ is a decent grade, almost a B-not a language. they barely exist. like soldiers or artists, you don't care about the opinions of civilians. you're building something intricate and fine. they'll never understand it.
Beekeeping
Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. you can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. you keep these bees from stinging by paying them money. more money than they know what to do. but that's less than you Mi Ght think. You see, all these programmers keep hearing their parents 'voices in their heads saying "When are you going to join the real world? "All you have to pay them is enough money that they can answer (also in their heads)" Geez, dad, I'm making more than you. "On average, this is cheap. and you get them to stay in the hive by giving them other coders to swarm. the only person whose praise matters is another programmer. less-talented programmers will idolize them; evenly matched ones will challenge and Goad one another; and if you want to get a good swarm, you make sure that you have at least one certified genius coder that they can all look up to, even if he glances at other people's Code only long enough to sneer at it. he's a player, thinks the junior programmer. he looked at my code. that is enough. if a software company provides such a hive, the coders will give up sleep, love, health, and clean laundry, while the company keeps the bulk of the money.
Out of control
Here's the problem that ends up killing company after company. all successful software companies had, as their dominant personality, a leader who nurtured programmers. but no company can keep such a leader forever. either he cashes out, or he brings in management types who end up driving him out, or he changes and becomes a management type himself. one way or another, marketers get control. but... c Ontrol of what? Instead of finding assembly lines of productive workers, they quickly discover that their product is produced by utterly unpredictable, uncooperative, disobedient, and worst of all, unattractive people who resist all attempts at management. put them on a time clock, dress them in suits, and they become sullen and start sabotaging the product. worst of all, you can sense that they are making fun of you with every word they say.
Smoked out
The shock is greater for the coder, though. he suddenly finds that alien creatures control his life. meetings, schedules, reports. and now someone demands that he plan all his programming and then stick to the plan, never improving, never tweaking, and never, never touching some other team's code. the lousy young programmer who once worshiped him is now his tyrannical boss, a position he got because he played golf with some sphincter in a suit. the hive has been ruined. the best coders leave. and the marketers, comfortable now because they're surrounded by power neckties and they have things under control, are baffled that each new iteration of their software loses market share as the Code bloats and the bugs proliferate. got to get some better packaging. yeah, that's it.

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