I completely agree with your posting of Symbolic Hours. As a case study...
I began a project 7 months ago to write a new product pretty much from scratch. We were required to have a proof of concept in a month, an beta version in 6 months and a release to market in 9 months.
Despite the tight time frame we have achieved the first two of these deadlines and look like achieving the third. We have a team of 4 programmers, a manager, a technical writer and a test team. We work only 9-5, we don't work weekends and we can take time off during business hours if we need to. Even in deadline weeks we do not work more than 9-5 and we don't work weekends.
Any manager trying to interfere with this program has been soundly told where to place his head.
We are developers, they are actually scared of us. If you growl at them and make your deadlines they will leave you alone and sing your praises.
Cheers,
Scott
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I completely agree with your posting of Symbolic Hours. As a case study... I began a project 7 months ago to write a new product pretty much from scratch. We were required to have a proof of concept in a month, an beta version in 6 months and a release to market in 9 months. Despite the tight time frame we have achieved the first two of these deadlines and look like achieving the third. We have a team of 4 programmers, a manager, a technical writer and a test team. We work only 9-5, we don't work weekends and we can take time off during business hours if we need to. Even in deadline weeks we do not work more than 9-5 and we don't work weekends. Any manager trying to interfere with this program has been soundly told where to place his head. We are developers, they are actually scared of us. If you growl at them and make your deadlines they will leave you alone and sing your praises. Cheers, Scott