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>> Regarding proposals, schedules, roadmaps, milestones.... I've got a |
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>> list of a million changes to make to my website's front-end and |
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>> back-end. There is a very specific way I want things to work, so |
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>> everything is broken down to a granular "task" level. In the old days |
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>> I would just dig in and start grinding away on things, but I'm ready |
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>> to pass that duty on to a real programmer and I can't imagine that |
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>> it's productive to have him submit a proposal, set up a schedule, |
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>> generate a roadmap, and create milestones for every little thing that |
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>> needs to be done. Can I hire one guy and give him one task at a time |
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>> and see how it goes without any of that stuff? |
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> That will only work if you show him the big picture first so he sees |
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> where the bits fit in. By all means contract him to focus on one aspect |
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> at a time, but please don't disguise the overall view. It's |
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> counter-productive and he's not doing something he has already done |
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> many times before so he really needs to be able to see how the bit he's |
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> working on fits into everything else. |
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In the past I did plan to disguise the overall view, but I've gotten |
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over that thanks to folks like yourself. |
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> We've discussed this project of yours more than once here over the |
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> years, and each time the same thing gets raised - you are unwilling to |
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> show a programmer the whole picture. Does this mean the handover |
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> efforts have all failed before? |
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Previous handover efforts have failed, and precisely for that reason. |
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I didn't bring up obscuring the big picture this time, but re-reading |
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my top paragraph in this message I can see that it sounds like that's |
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what I'm getting at. It's not at all. I'm just trying to preload |
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some management knowledge and fit it into my context (which does not |
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include obscuring the big picture from developers). |
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- Grant |