From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SZ2P1-0004Ty-Rn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 May 2012 16:02:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA7B2E089E; Mon, 28 May 2012 16:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B40E0845 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 16:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so6735817obb.40 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZmEtIrsyUl4VKqw4ngx8BfL/NdT6eNRCsh1QsawywBo=; b=TWMMJVv99SM+ynGZN9i/rQ7OeMWzJpXlityaVBvjtFI/g97Hy36aeSUav+2TbHrni3 ThXGYZ6Lgl13PHu9tVsfrJbAy2/Hqt7XtCDC2i73U62RLS0vC6RYQoyM+TtSf2Dvk7KH q/dN+oUZsC9mkOaqA1YRfbubQV7v2rpicVObPMRCApu9iaU3zY5y94yrZjhh+5HtjJw6 FJWPRuhGLoc1AOs/4dsaVobzPRIjNMWz+F8O+CRMb+ZvhZqdSgq0spMHHgLgWUOlgLmo 229Aot5qUKsJUM9gS+4pRaAnR3llmFzG+H9jKfGtg45H/h1CiZHAzcVSVFnQyh1XpjBI BpLg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.136.4 with SMTP id pw4mr8300382obb.28.1338220855580; Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.113.3 with HTTP; Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120527231852.186a968f@khamul.example.com> References: <4FC0C217.6050302@binarywings.net> <4FC1EAFD.6010504@binarywings.net> <20120527231852.186a968f@khamul.example.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:55 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cffb11dc-874e-4f6e-9a02-46639f50d3b8 X-Archives-Hash: 3007deed456e13f3a26546ded7449d80 >> I'll be getting my feet wet with this shortly. =A0Any other tips >> regarding the management of one or more programmers working on various >> small web projects? =A0Maybe 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