From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw14pdaS_6caXh2uQYZ+gu2HWRCsMwbxqmBqANLWb=CTmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120527231852.186a968f@khamul.example.com>
>> I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. Any other tips
>> regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various
>> small web projects? Maybe workflow or any key procedures a newbie
>> manager should follow?
>
> You can get away with almost anything except these two things:
>
> Do not micro-manage
> Do not tell them how to do what they do
Could you give me an example of this last one?
- Grant
> For everything else, good old communication (that thing you do lots of
> in business) will see you through.
>
> --
> Alan McKinnnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-28 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-26 11:26 [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company? Grant
2012-05-26 11:44 ` Florian Philipp
2012-05-27 6:22 ` Grant
2012-05-27 8:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-27 8:51 ` Florian Philipp
2012-05-27 16:09 ` Grant
2012-05-27 16:35 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-27 16:53 ` Grant
2012-05-27 21:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-28 15:30 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-27 21:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-28 16:00 ` Grant [this message]
2012-05-28 20:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-29 8:34 ` Grant
2012-05-29 12:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-29 17:51 ` Grant
2012-05-29 20:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-30 9:00 ` Grant
2012-05-29 12:30 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-29 13:58 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-29 14:05 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-29 14:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-29 23:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-05-30 9:11 ` Grant
2012-05-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-05-30 22:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2012-05-31 6:44 ` Grant
2012-05-29 17:02 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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