"Well my question is how much experience do you have of managing projects and developers?"

Managing developers across various countries is exactly what I do best in the Free Software community... but I know their talents very well because most of their prior work is openly available for review and audit, and can task them where they best fit. That side of the PM is no problem.

Not knowing where to start, what developers are good/bad, and how to break this up (in terms of cost and deadlines) is my blocker at the moment. Can a good coder do it in a weekend, and not follow my guidelines? Sure. Can a "poor" coder do it exactly how I describe, but take a month longer? Sure.

I need to find that balance, and rather quickly unfortunately. I'm breaking up the features and the technologies that are required over the next couple of weeks, so I should have a better idea of what is required by then.

In reply to Re: Hiring Perl Talent, Hiring Perl Monks by hacker
in thread Hiring Perl Talent, Hiring Perl Monks by hacker

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