Quote:Think of it this way:

 

You own a computer factory. You need a manager to run the factory for you on a day-to-day basis. You're considering the department managers from GPUs and motherboards for the role. The GPU manager knows GPUs inside out and can fine-tune the processes there to give you an outstanding product, but he isn't exactly polished when it comes to producing RAM, motherboards and power supplies, and isn't the best at finding the most economical and effective way to put everything together into a high-performing computer in the most efficient fashion.

 

Your motherboard manager, on the other hand, is very good at what he does with motherboards, but no one thinks he's the best motherboard engineer in the company by any stretch of the imagination. You also know that your motherboard manager has a great understanding of what it takes to build a solid, high-performing computer. He can't walk in and build a CPU better than the CPU manager could, but he does know how to put the computer together in a way that it will get the absolute max that it can out of that CPU, and out of all the other parts.

 

If you're hiring that plant manager, who do you want? The Joe Bugel of graphics cards, or the Doug Marrone of motherboards?

I get the analogy, but in that instance the motherboards would be a crap product that no one wants to buy.  That's not the manager's fault necessarily since it's the developers that engineer the product, but with him only being the manager for a short time and producing one of the worst motherboards, it's difficult in my opinion to conclude that he's a good manager.

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