Are Ex-Developers Good Project Managers? (marekblotny.com)

Sooner or later developers have to start thinking about their career path. They are facing a question like 'I have been programming for x year ... now what?'. As I see it there are three potential career paths for developers. One of them is well known path from development to project management. Quite often you can hear that developers are not good project managers. But they have one big advantage over non-ex-developers - they know what debugging is!