Re: Experience to the Management

If I was a project manager, I would avoid such programmers who do non-structured code (long methods, no objects). It is interesting to note that such programmres often solve the problem quickly and know technical documentation very well. However, what is left after them, it is hardly usable by others. How should a manager check this ability, I have no idea. One can notice this after a month or so. This might be personal opinion, but at the moment I'm mostly refactoring code left by some programmer before me.

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Re(2): Experience to the Management by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Feb 26, 2003 at 10:19 UTC
IMHO, managers shouldn't operate at that level, unless they absolutely have to (which probably means that the programmers are too inexperienced to work it out themselves). Managers are there to make sure that you get the resources you need -- the cash to buy usable servers and workstations, the time to learn a new toolset before delivering it to the customers, the extra manpower to get a job done in the scope that it requires -- without making you go to their management and beg for money, time, or programmers. I think that a good manager spends half their time doing what they can to make your life easier, and half their time making you make your clients' lives easier. And as much as we like to bitch about them, good managers really deserve a hell of a lot of respect. `-- F o x t r o t U n i f o r m Found a typo in this node? /msg me The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!`	[reply]

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Re(2): Experience to the Management
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Feb 26, 2003 at 10:19 UTC

IMHO, managers shouldn't operate at that level, unless they absolutely have to (which probably means that the programmers are too inexperienced to work it out themselves). Managers are there to make sure that you get the resources you need -- the cash to buy usable servers and workstations, the time to learn a new toolset before delivering it to the customers, the extra manpower to get a job done in the scope that it requires -- without making you go to their management and beg for money, time, or programmers.

I think that a good manager spends half their time doing what they can to make your life easier, and half their time making you make your clients' lives easier. And as much as we like to bitch about them, good managers really deserve a hell of a lot of respect.

-- F o x t r o t U n i f o r m Found a typo in this node? /msg me The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!

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