Thanks for the link to your blog, and this post. The irony of this post is that I have never worked anywhere where the developers did not think the codebase was a pile of crap. That's pretty much what a codebase is. See also, http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m

That's not male or female developers, that's all developers. However, I am interested in the "Fire and Forget" meme applied to software management. I'm going to noodle on that some more.