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On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:51:13 -0700 |
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Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Oh , one last thing: despite all appearances to the contrary, most |
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> > people out there can be trusted to do the right thing as far as they |
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> > are able, and do want to do a good job. Don't let occasional lapses |
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> > cloud your view of this. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, we all |
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> > must learn to be tolerant when it happens. |
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> Sorry for the scrolling but that stuff just can't be snipped. |
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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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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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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |