Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} hire a programmer or company?

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.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?
>
> - I see you are using Perl with hashrefs to do function xyz. Have you
> considered (i.e. I would like you to) using $INSERT_SOMETHING_HERE?
>
> - Fiddling with the roadmap. Somehow, this always ends up like the
> homeowner overriding the architect and trying to get the roof up
> before the walls.
>
> - Giving "advice" on the process such as saying how awesome a concept
> stakeholders and product owners are in Scrum. But they use
> ExtremeProgramming.
>
> - Wanting to personally review the code often. I've seen some managers
>  want to do this daily.
>
> - Get personally involved on their level.
>
>
> All these things class as interference. Managers and owners who do this
> have miles of justifiable reasons for doing so, but it's always hogwash
> - they interfere, plain and simple.

This is really interesting to me.  Is there a forum/website/book with
more gritty, practical advice like this on managing programmers?
These are the kinds of mistakes I will definitely make if someone
doesn't tell me not to.

Could you tell me really briefly what a manager *should* do?

I think I'll try to manage a single programmer working few hours and
see how it goes.  My asking stupid questions is due to my lack of
experience and there's only one way to fix that.

-  Grant