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Management is (and should be) different for businesses where engineering excellence is a necessity versus businesses that just need competent/efficient technical solutions to non-technical problems.

This article is clearly about the second type of business. And it's designed to defend the second type of business against programmers who think they work for the first type of business.

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Kindly disagree. If a business has a need that is critical to the business, not hiring a person with technical experience to manage technical things is just a mistake (or the business being lazy). I dont understand the shying away from hiring a qualified individual here. The fact is, its 2017 and there actually are a fair amount of qualified technical managers who can communicate and fufill the role.

Many other comments have pointed out various analogies in other fields that reinforce this.

If the business's primary objectives are non-technical, there will be some level of management that is non-technical, and they need some guidance.

This article isn't the greatest, but it doesn't seem terrible to me.

Note that "technical" is a matter of degree and relative to the team being managed. It doesn't necessarily mean they dictate their emails to their secretary.

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