A listener sent me this article. I haven’t read it all the way through, yet. But I have read enough to agree with his suggestion that this very strongly supports my views on “desk jockeys”. It also explains why on time, another lead developer and I had a three hour conversation explaining the definition, function and purpose of the Factory design pattern to a third lead so she could improve a particular knotty piece of code she’d written, only to have her ask, “Why doesn’t everyone have to use this?”