Great article, completely agree.<p>> Businesses seem to have a mortal fear of a horde of shabby developers who can't make eye contact invading their inner sanctum.<p>That’s maybe half the truth. A lot of developers see their job as only head-down coding and tinkering with new things. They object to meetings of any kind, or any interruption. They don’t want to engage with management, marketing, customers, users. Management excludes the developers, the developers exclude themselves, in a self-reinforcing cycle of alienation and resentment.