# The Bellic School of Management Training

DevFeed: [The Bellic School of Management Training](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-bellic-school-of-management-training-38762.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/bellic-school-of-management-training.html>)

Author: Steve Yegge (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2008-09-29T06:08:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Steve Yegge](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/steve-yegge.md>)

Topics: [simulator](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/simulator.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [dev](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dev.md>), [fun](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fun.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [simulator](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/simulator.md>)

## AI overview

A humorous commentary presents Grand Theft Auto IV as an unconventional management-training simulator, comparing its missions with corporate training and the author's experience as a software development manager.

## Source excerpt

I haven't been blogging much this summer. Mostly it's because all my free time has been spent engaged in an important research project called "What Would Niko Bellic Do?" I've been enrolled in a high-quality Management Scenario Simulator with the unconventional name "Grand Theft Auto IV", probably some sort of inside joke, and I've been going through all its Developer Management training courses. You know how these corporate training videos go, right? They set up some contrived scenario with actors you're supposed to identify with, and the actors have inane discussions about sexual harrassment or bribing government officials or stealing company equipment, and then you're asked to answer questions about whether it was OK for Bob to grab Sue's ass in that particular edge-case scenario. Seriously, I just took one of these courses at work. You'd think they're a joke, but no, they're considered Important Employee Training. Well, this Niko Bellic course isn't much different, just more fun. I finished the final management training session a couple weeks ago. And by truly amazing coincidence, right after I finished the final training mission, my blog made it into the Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008). I personally thought that was a little weird, seeing as I've never written explicitly about software development management. Unless of course you count that one time where I wrote about how you don't need them. BUT, now that I've finished all the Niko Bellic Advanced Management Training courses, I'm officially a Certified Expert Dev Manager, capable of not only handling unforseen tricky management situations, but also teaching others about them! So now I think my blog being in that list is totally justified. All the training in the simulator was top-notch. A lot of it was ground I'd covered before in my days as an actual dev manager. I already knew how to react, for example, when my mafia boss told me he'd been betrayed by my previous manager, and I had to take