When Microsoft developers were behind in delivering Visual Basic (some version) Bill Gates gave the developers all the pizza, coke they needed and provided beds for taking naps.
You might not like Gates, but he knew how to run a company and motivate staff. -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul McNett Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Opportunity maybe On 7/7/14, 5:38 PM, Geoff Flight wrote: > aint that the truth... Its like a previous thread about companies > moving their applications to 'the cloud' despite having no idea what > it is or why they should do it and often they shouldn't. If you are a > fan of Dilbert then you would recognise that the PHB is based on real people. Love Dilbert, so true and holds up. Managers should be seen as resources for developers and everyone else actually doing work on the project. They need to keep track of the project, make sure things are on schedule, interface with the stakeholders, and if things aren't on schedule they need to ask the developers how they can help. If the developers say "you can help by not calling so many meetings that don't actually require our presence, provide pizza and a beer for lunch" then management should abide. Otherwise, they aren't doing their job effectively. I'm serious, even about the beer. Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
