How do I tell my boss he made the wrong choice? [migrated]
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Recently, our biggest product failed majorly because we'd only used outsourced labor to do it, and they never tested anything, etc.
Finally, our CEO decided that the US team should learn the code and fix it up. (Not a total rewrite, but lots of formatting/style changes, refactoring, etc). However, he knows next to nothing about programming (thankfully, he admits it).
He had been grooming me to take on the project manager position, but I had to go back to college. Now he gave it to another programmer who is naive and inexperienced. I don't feel the naive programmer will do nearly as well. The CEO's reasoning is that the naive programmer can work full time and I can only do part time, so the less senior programmer could put more work into it.
How can I convince him that 15 hours of my time is worth more than the other guy's 40?
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