If this guy were 'properly' managed he would never be allowed to overhaul this project like he did. Not many managers will be impressed by a "I will build a full compiler that is going to be better than what the CTO built in the next two weeks immediately after which is the deadline" speech, as the author also admits.
If the company was properly managed they also wouldn't have been in a situation where there's only two weeks left and a critical component is in a not well understood state.
In practice though these kinds of things constantly happen in even well managed companies. If the author weren't around they'd probably just have shipped a slow Javascript interpreter that couldn't do prototypes very well.
Just curious, what kind of programming technique renders the idea of this article obsolete?
