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On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> >> I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips |
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>>> >> regarding the management of one or more programmers working on |
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>>> >> various small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures |
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>>> >> a newbie manager should follow? |
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>>> > You can get away with almost anything except these two things: |
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>>> > Do not micro-manage |
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>>> > Do not tell them how to do what they do |
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>>> Could you give me an example of this last one? |
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>> - I see you are using Perl with hashrefs to do function xyz. Have you |
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>> considered (i.e. I would like you to) using $INSERT_SOMETHING_HERE? |
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>> - Fiddling with the roadmap. Somehow, this always ends up like the |
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>> homeowner overriding the architect and trying to get the roof up |
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>> before the walls. |
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>> - Giving "advice" on the process such as saying how awesome a concept |
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>> stakeholders and product owners are in Scrum. But they use |
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>> ExtremeProgramming. |
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>> - Wanting to personally review the code often. I've seen some managers |
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>> want to do this daily. |
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>> - Get personally involved on their level. |
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>> All these things class as interference. Managers and owners who do this |
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>> have miles of justifiable reasons for doing so, but it's always hogwash |
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>> - they interfere, plain and simple. |
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> This is really interesting to me. Is there a forum/website/book with |
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> more gritty, practical advice like this on managing programmers? |
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> These are the kinds of mistakes I will definitely make if someone |
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> doesn't tell me not to. |
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> Could you tell me really briefly what a manager *should* do? |
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> I think I'll try to manage a single programmer working few hours and |
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> see how it goes. My asking stupid questions is due to my lack of |
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> experience and there's only one way to fix that. |
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I'd probably suggest reading The Mythical Man-Month. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month |
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:wq |