On Habr the other day, an article “Programming — a career dead end?” hung in the tops. In a nutshell, it was about the fact that if a developer wants to get a lot, then he does not need to do his favorite thing – programming – but to retrain as a manager (manager).
In principle, this is quite a fair remark for any specialty in Russia, where traditionally (and with rare exceptions) management personnel receive more than specialists.
Another local problem related to management is the lack of a management school “with a history”. In Soviet times, there was a substitute for it (conditionally, of course) Komsomol. After perestroika, of course, continuity disappeared. New management personnel began to be taken from nowhere.
The solution to the first problem depends on the owners of the companies.
The second problem, if desired, can be solved independently. For example, by going to study abroad.
Another solution for those who work in the gaming industry was recently offered by the Russian Higher School of Economics (HSE) together with the Higher School of Business Informatics (HSE), launching a professional retraining program “management of Internet gaming projects”. How effective such a program will be is a big question, but at the moment it looks quite interesting.
So, according to the information published on the website, “the program is recommended for novice game designers, studio managers, those who are just planning to open their own company and work in the gaming industry.”
We would never have written about this initiative of the HSE if it were not for the list of teachers, which includes Sergey Orlovsky (founder and CEO of Nival), Dmitry Burkovsky (VP Global Business Development Xsolla) and Alexey Filatov (head of the monetization department Mail.Ru group).
However, despite the relevance of the course, questions to it still remain. Firstly, is it enough for a full-fledged “entry into the topic” 9 months with a far from daily schedule of classes? Secondly, isn’t it too expensive to take 23 thousand a month, other programs cost significantly less?
What do you think about this initiative?