You can get away with almost anything except these two things:
Do not micro-manage
Do not tell them how to do what they do
Could you give me an example of this last one?
- I see you are using Perl with hashrefs to do function xyz. Have
you considered (i.e. I would like you
Regarding proposals, schedules, roadmaps, milestones I've got a
list of a million changes to make to my website's front-end and
back-end. There is a very specific way I want things to work, so
everything is broken down to a granular task level. In the old days
I would just dig in and
You can get away with almost anything except these two things:
Do not micro-manage
Do not tell them how to do what they do
Could you give me an example of this last one?
- I see you are using Perl with hashrefs to do function xyz. Have you
considered (i.e. I would like you to) using
On Wed, 30 May 2012 02:11:54 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
You can get away with almost anything except these two things:
Do not micro-manage
Do not tell them how to do what they do
Could you give me an example of this last one?
- I see you are using Perl with
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on
various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures
a newbie manager should follow?
You can get away with almost anything except these two things:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 01:34:52 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
All these things class as interference. Managers and owners who do
this have miles of justifiable reasons for doing so, but it's
always hogwash
- they interfere, plain and simple.
This is really interesting to me.
On May 29, 2012 3:39 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on
various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures
a newbie manager should follow?
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on
various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures
a newbie manager should follow?
On 05/29/12 09:58, Michael Mol wrote:
I'd probably suggest reading The Mythical Man-Month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
As long as we're suggesting books, this is one of my favorites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams
At
On Tue, 29 May 2012 09:58:00 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on
various small web
Everything I know about dealing with technical people is from the
school of hard knocks :-)
And class is definitely in session! Thanks to all for your guidance with this.
I don't think it's something that can be taught or
properly described adequately. But there are some obvious concepts:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:51:13 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh , one last thing: despite all appearances to the contrary, most
people out there can be trusted to do the right thing as far as they
are able, and do want to do a good job. Don't let occasional lapses
cloud your view
On Tuesday 29 May 2012 15:37:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oh, and this one is a classic too:
Q: How do you get a project to be 3 years late?
A: One day at a time.
Or: the first 50% of the project takes the first 90% of the time, and the
other 50% of the project takes the other 90% of the time.
On 05/27/2012 05:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
You need an existing development house with a reputation to uphold,
located in the same city as you.
Without getting into the (book-length) details, I'll +1 this.
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various
small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie
manager should follow?
You can get away with almost anything except these two things:
Do
On Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on
various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures
a newbie manager should
I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for $X/hour,
or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It makes sense from
a financial perspective to hire programmers directly, but I wonder if
there are benefits to hiring a really good company.
I'm sorry this is OT, but I bet
On Sat, 26 May 2012 23:22:22 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Extensive testing, on the other hand, is something a team should do.
Sure, the lone programmer can write you some unit tests and conduct
a system test, but testing itself is a profession of its own and
should be done by
Am 27.05.2012 08:22, schrieb Grant:
I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for $X/hour,
or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It makes sense from
a financial perspective to hire programmers directly, but I wonder if
there are benefits to hiring a really good
I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for $X/hour,
or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It makes sense from
a financial perspective to hire programmers directly, but I wonder if
there are benefits to hiring a really good company.
[snip]
Thank you Florian and
Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2012, 09:09:26 schrieb Grant:
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various
small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie
manager should follow?
seriously? asking
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various
small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie
manager should follow?
seriously? asking those questions? Get a company. Make it their
On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:53:22 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
regarding the management of one or more programmers working on
various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures
a newbie manager should
On Sun, 27 May 2012 09:09:26 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for
$X/hour, or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It
makes sense from a financial perspective to hire programmers
directly, but I wonder if there are
I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for $X/hour,
or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It makes sense from
a financial perspective to hire programmers directly, but I wonder if
there are benefits to hiring a really good company.
I'm sorry this is OT, but I bet you
Am 26.05.2012 13:26, schrieb Grant:
I'm debating whether I should hire an expert programmer for $X/hour,
or a company of expert programmers for $2X/hour. It makes sense from
a financial perspective to hire programmers directly, but I wonder if
there are benefits to hiring a really good
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