Hi All,
Tackling music and not the programmer's deliverable indicates a serious management and business design incompetence.
The programmer should have a performance incentive contract that clearly stipulates the outcomes that need to be delivered in order for that programmer to be regarded as successful. The contract needs to stipulate how the outcome will be measured and what the consequences will be for both success and failure.
Further than that, programmers should be entirely free to deliver the agreed and contracted outcomes in whichever way that works for them.
The key role of any manager is to ensure these contracts are in place. It is the absence of these agreements that results in a destructive and petty approach to people.
There is no such thing as a perfect working environment - we all have our unique things that work for us but not necessarily for others. The only way to accommodate this in a work environment is to contract the deliverables with incentives and then to get out of the way...
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Hi All, Tackling music and not the programmer's deliverable indicates a serious management and business design incompetence. The programmer should have a performance incentive contract that clearly stipulates the outcomes that need to be delivered in order for that programmer to be regarded as successful. The contract needs to stipulate how the outcome will be measured and what the consequences will be for both success and failure. Further than that, programmers should be entirely free to deliver the agreed and contracted outcomes in whichever way that works for them. The key role of any manager is to ensure these contracts are in place. It is the absence of these agreements that results in a destructive and petty approach to people. There is no such thing as a perfect working environment - we all have our unique things that work for us but not necessarily for others. The only way to accommodate this in a work environment is to contract the deliverables with incentives and then to get out of the way ...