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When Developers Work Late, Should the Manager Stay?
jammag writes "A veteran developer looks back — in irritation — at those times he had to work late and his unskilled manager stayed too, just to look over his shoulder and add worry and fret to the process. Now, that same developer is a manager himself — and recently stayed late to ride herd over late-working developers. 'And guess what? Yep, I hadn't coded in years and never in the language he had to work with.' Yet now he understood: his own butt was on the line, so he was staying put. Still, does it really help developers to have management hovering on a late evening, even if the boss handles pizza delivery?"
Dont be a micromanager. Just be there for the employees and let them know that its okay to ask for help.
Yes, make the manager stay and see what us devs have to go though to make deadlines. Deadlines that are usually set by clueless managers. Especially if the manager is salaried and the workers are paid hourly. Get SOMETHING useful out of what the company is paying them. :)
It's also not possible to sexually harass your boss.
It is possible sexually harass your boss. When you get fired, this is cause for your termination.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9968-top-10-steps-to-a-better-brain.html?full=true#faq2
Above article is extremely relevant. I'm sure most nerds would find the whole thing interesting. The one section however is specifically about how foods effect your brain function and which ones are good.
> upper management generally goof around all day at golf clubs and political dinners.
;). They might have to put their health on the line - foie gras, butter sauces etc...
That sort of "goofing off" often gets the contracts and projects.
It's hard work and someone has to do it
Most people misunderstand the concept Brooks wrote about. His point wasn't that you never add new resource but that you shouldn't add resource late to a project that is running late. If your project planning says that having 2 more people would be helpful then by all means hire those resources at the beginning of the project.