Reading some posts about “gratification” on Luka’s blog I think how (in Italy) the next step for a software developer is to  became a project manager.

First: it is not clear how this two roles are correlated. It’s absolutely false that a good developer will be a good manager.

Second: what make you think that I, as a developer, want to became a project manager? I love my profession, I love develop software and I hate working with project and excel.

I would like that our bosses would give us other path, an alternative to the vertical growth. I would like to have the horizontal growth.

I mean, I would like to have more space to try new practices, to go to the conferences, to buy new books and to learn new technologies.

This would benefit all the company because I would share my know how with other developers and I could give something different to my company.

So, managers out there: think about this!