Hi everybody. I have a little management-type dilemma that I can't solve. I'm no manager, so I'm trying to collect info about how other people do it.
I work in a small group of CF developers (7 of us) inside a big company (100k+ of us). The way we work is that pretty much everybody owns one or more applications in our group's portfolio of programs (probably 10 apps, 3 or 4 are big & important). My manager has noticed that we don't communicate enough and has started threatening drastic measures, moving people around and putting us where we don't want to be. I am not sure of his motivation, but it may be partially the hit-by-a-bus protection, wondering if his apps will be supported if one of us eats a piece of public transportation. So my question to the list is this: How do you organize your teams of developers successfully? Please let me know what you do, or what you have seen that actually works. I'll start us off. I asked my friend Mario, who says they have a team of core developers that do R&D at a higher level, overseeing the technical direction of their applications. Those R&D projects are flowed out into application development teams, and then they have a lot of other developers who do front-ends and integration work. Regular flow-down meetings help people share ideas and copy & adapt similar projects. Mario's team compositon sounds awesome, but he has a lot more people than I do. What do you do? nathan strutz [www.dopefly.com] [hi.im/nathanstrutz] [about.me/nathanstrutz] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347188 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
